On 2018-03-23 14:01, ast wrote: > Le 23/03/2018 à 13:43, Rustom Mody a écrit : >> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:46:56 PM UTC+5:30, ast wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I found this way to put a large number in >>> a variable. >> >> What stops you from entering the number on one single (v long) line? > > > It is not beautiful and not very readable. It is better to > have a fixed number of digits per line (eg 50) > > import this > > Beautiful is better than ugly. > Readability counts.
I would tend to read this as a reason not to have extremely large numbers in your code in the first place if you can avoid it. > > >> >> In case there is a religious commitment to PEP 8 dicta, the recommended >> meditation is this line (also from PEP8): >> >> "However, know when to be inconsistent -- sometimes style guide >> recommendations just aren't applicable" >> > > Yes I am using pylint which flags too long lines (80 characters) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
