On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:19:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:38:28 +0200, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >> >>> Seriously, who would want to limit >>> him/herself to 80 characters in 2011? >> >> Seriously, or is that a rhetorical question? >> >> People who like to have two source files side-by-side on a standard >> sized monitor, or three on a wide-screen monitor. >> >> And most importantly... people who want to have their code accepted >> into the Python standard library. > > Is that 80 including indentation, or excluding? And if including, does > that put a hard limit of 20 indentation levels for standard library > code?
Including. As for the hard limit, pretty much. > Only partly tongue-in-cheek. I have code that quite legitimately has > gone to ten tabs in, and stayed there, "Legitimately"? I very much doubt it. (Only half joking.) > and has on occasion gone as far as 12-16. I would consider anything more than four indents a code smell. That is, four is unexceptional; five would make me look over the code to see if it could be refactored; six would make me look at it *carefully*; eight would have me questioning my own sanity. I wouldn't give a hard limit beyond which I would "never" go beyond, but I find it difficult to imagine what drugs I'd need to be on to go beyond eight. *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
