On Dec 7, 9:17 am, Andreas Waldenburger <use...@geekmail.invalid> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 00:22:49 -0500 Andreas Waldenburger > <use...@geekmail.invalid> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:52:54 -0800 Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> > > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, shearichard <shearich...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > Hi - PEP8 says lines should not exceed 79 characters in length > > > > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). > > > > > So if you've got some code that looks like this : > > > > > raise fooMod.fooException("Some message which is quite long") > > > > > ... and assuming a certain amount of indenting you're going to > > > > break that guideline. > > > > > [etc.] > > > > [...] > > > Alternatively, you could disregard PEP 8 on this point on the > > > grounds that the 79/80 characters per line limit is outdated. > > > Maybe, but it's not outmoded. > > As a more useful (I hope) reply, my opinion in this case is to just make the > line a little longer. Even if you can't read it all at once, it is pretty > obvious what comes next: The rest of the error message. There is no > additional functionality hidden there, and you don't need to see it all at > once to grasp the meaning of the code. > > /W > > -- > To reach me via email, replace INVALID with the country code of my home > country. But if you spam me, I'll be one sour Kraut.
Thanks to everyone for their helpful replies. Thanks for the pointers towards implicit (or explicit) string concatenation - just what was needed. I appreciate everyone has different opinions by I'm happy to try to stick with 79 character lines for the meantime - largely for the 'may have a wide screen but like to have lots of files open in slim windows' reason. regards Richard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
