On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Aahan Krish <kr...@aahan.me> wrote: > My question is to them (because I want to use tabs too) is: how do you > maintain a line-length of 79 characters? > > E.g. scenario: The tab setting in your editor could be 2 or 4, and in > other developer's browser it could be 8. The code will be longer than > 79 chars in the latter's editor.
Easy: You stop fretting about 79 characters. :) If your policy is "lines are no more than 80-100 characters long", then the difference between 4-space tabs and 8-space won't break stuff unless it was already marginal. So if you run 4-space (or 2-space) indentation, you just make sure you keep your lines to the lower end of the limit. Even better, don't quibble about any sort of specific limit, and just have a policy of "don't make stuff so long that it's unreadable, and don't put silly arbitrary rules on your programmers". That's my policy. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
