On Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:57:26 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > The limit of human readability is generally given to be somewhere in > the range of 60-120. It's not a single specific value that's exactly > the same for everyone; personally, I like my lines of code to be a bit > longer than 80, and will happily go to 90-100, but in the interests of > interoperability, it's helpful to standardize on one common value - > especially for large shared codebases. > > You're arguing against the specific value of 80, but 100 is still > pretty close to that. There are two key boundaries: the point at which > your eye can no longer comfortably read the text, and the point at > which you need to scroll horizontally. The latter of course depends on > your screen, but it's an EXTREMELY important barrier; the former is > the "soft" boundary, as you won't instantly know when you're over it. >
Thanks Chris for some sanity As far as I can see the votaries of the mystical 79 have yet to explain how/where it appeared from JFTR the OP asked how to shorten a line and the shortest so far is what I suggested -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
