On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:42 AM, Michael Selik <michael.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +-------------------------+------------+ >> |line-too-long |5 | meh >> > > Yeah, I think 80 characters can be somewhat tight. Still, 5 long lines in > 200ish lines of code? Sounds like you might be doing too much in those > lines or have too many levels of indentation. > "Sparse is better than dense" > "Flat is better than nested"
Others have commented on this, but I'll weigh in with one point that hasn't been mentioned yet. A lot of tools will complain when you exceed 80 (or 79) characters per line; but it depends somewhat on *how far* you exceeded it. Some people opt instead for a 100-character limit, or even 120, but most programmers agree that a 200-character line (or more!) is too long. So if this is complaining about five lines out of your entire program that just snuck over the 80-character limit (eg 86 characters long), it's not a concern, and my recommendation would be to relax the restriction. And if those few lines are ginormous hunks of data (static list initialization, or something), you might consider dumping them out to external files rather than wrapping them into big code blocks. But if they're truly long lines of code, wrap or split them. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
