In article <a3253d6a-ef89-49d5-b866-8c06a7462...@googlegroups.com>, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:37:24 PM UTC+5:30, Ganesh Pal wrote: >> Hi Team , >> >> >> what would be the best way to intent the below line . >> >> I have few lines in my program exceeding the allowed maximum line >Length of 79./80 characters >> >> >> Example 1 : >> >> >> p = >Subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd),stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE) > > >First rule of python-list: Pay careful attention to Peter Otten. > >That said... > >80-character limit?! > >Sheesh! A relic of the days when terminals were ASCII and 80x24
80 character was the hard limit. The soft limit for readability is 60..65 characters. Think about it. Just that a language accepts #define MASK_SEPIA_INTERNAL_BLEEDING_WASHINGTON_DC_BLACK 0x147800fa means that it is a good idea to do so. Groetjes Albert -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
