On Jun 02, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 6/2/20 9:52 AM, Volker Braun wrote:I'm with Linus in that the 80 characters limit is an anachronism thats too restrictive in a time and age where large high-resolution displays are ubiqitous. There certainly is a "too long" somewhere but its more in the 100-character region.https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bdc48fa11e46f867ea4d75fa59ee87a7f48be144You shouldn't force yourself to stick to 80 characters when there's a technical reason for the line to be longer, but the argument for the 80-character limit is not some fairy tale about punch cards or PDP-11/VAX terminals. Find a book. How long are the lines? They're roughly the length that millennia of "user interface" research has taught us is most comfortable to read. Depending on the font, the max is around 80.
I didn't mean to start an argument about line length. I am about to submit a very large patch and if I ever hope to get a reviewer, I want to adhere as much as possible to whatever code style is imposed. I wanted to get a feeling if people really expected PEP8 as stated in the Developer's guide or not. Particularly about length 72 on output strings of tests and examples. It seems that I got my answer and it seems to be that it won't be an issue to leave these lines. As of now my code is a mess, but it's slowly improving. Best,
R.
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