On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:28 PM, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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",
Didn't see this coming. > 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. > Let's log this as an exception to the rule of 80. There are plenty of threads not-about-Unicode-but-are-now-about-Unicode that we don't have to create another one. Jason
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