On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Aahan Krish <kr...@aahan.me> wrote: > As for why I care the "79 chars" part of PEP 8: > > - Coding in terminals and VIM with multiple windows open.
Then measure your width with tabs set to 8 spaces, and nothing else matters. Otherwise, go back to your previous statement about avoiding arbitrary rules, maximize your terminal window (let's see, if I hit Alt-F10 on my Xfce system, I get a terminal window that's 51 rows, 190 columns; F11 increases that to 55 rows), and ignore the precise counts. All your other points are just as valid with 82 characters as with 79, and pretty much as valid with anything up to about 100-120. > - Avoiding horizontal scrollbars for code blocks on the web; GitHub > for instance. E.g. > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/async.c -- That > is good! It goes to 100 frequently, and I found one line that went to 126... if that's your idea of "good", then I think going as far as 100 in your own code shouldn't be a problem. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
