[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I put 21138 in the commit message. The push messages are these. New changeset 374746c5dedc by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #21138: Change default reformat paragraph width to PEP 8's 72. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/374746c5dedc New changeset dd2409

[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I applied my patch as part of #21284. When I did so, I added 'limit=70' so that the tests pass otherwise unchanged. The only thing left here is to change config-main.def. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am puzzled at the differences between the 2.7 and 3.4 patches. There are only three differences between the files - from Tkinter import Tk, Text, TclError + from tkinter import Tk, Text, TclError ? ^ - from test.test_support import requires + from test.s

[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

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[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

Saimadhav Heblikar added the comment: Attaching a patch for 2.7 and 3.4 The comment strings are modified to reflect 70->72 in the tests. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34763/issue21139-27.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Changing the default in the default configuration file is trivial. In test_formatparagraph.FormatEventTest, test_comment_block and test_long_line currently fail if the reformat width is changed on the General tab of the configuration dialog. These tests will n

[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

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[issue21139] Idle: change default reformat width from 70 to 72

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: PEP 8 specifies a limit of 72 chars for flowing text (comments, multiline strings). The current default limit for Idle's Format / Reformat Paragraph is 70. Increase it to PEP 8's 72. -- messages: 215417 nosy: terry.reedy priority: normal severity: no