On Thursday, September 5, 2013 8:47:01 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/5/2013 6:21 PM, Metallicow wrote: > > > > > > If you are still using equipment that requires 79, then chances are you > > have/will already gone out of business or are keeping/using said equipment > > for nostalgic purposes. > > > > > > As far as math goes. 10 is a nice round number. > > > > 79 chars + 1 cursor (or \n) == 80, the nice round number. > > > > Anyway, it is just a guideline. Ignore it if you wish. > > > > -- > > Terry Jan Reedy
Well, what I interpret as the PEP8 79 is chars visible minus the '\n' or '\r\n'(which would be 2; 81) line enders. This is not stated in PEP8. PEP8 needs a bit of revision anyway, In my opinion... According to real-world standards for equipment/devices. linking to a table/list of affected devices/minNumbers should be the norm. or.... ... from codingguidelines import PEPStandards ... or something similar(Official PEP Zen Guidelines) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
