On 4 avr, 03:36, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Although PEP 8 is only compulsory for the Python standard library, many > users like to stick to PEP 8 for external projects. > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ > > With perhaps one glaring exception: many people hate, or ignore, PEP 8's > recommendation to limit lines to 80 characters. (Strictly speaking, 79 > characters.) > > Here is a good defence of 80 char lines: > > http://wrongsideofmemphis.com/2013/03/25/80-chars-per-line-is-great/ > > -- > Steven
----- With "unicode fonts", where even the monospaced fonts present char widths with a variable width depending on the unicode block (obvious reasons), speaking of a "text width" in chars has not even a sense. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
