[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

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Le Tue, 19 May 2009 11:15:31 -0700,
"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> s'exprima ainsi:

> FWIW, I think Google solves this problem by using two space idents.
> 
> Though I suspect your note was trolling, I agree with you and find the 80
> character width to be an anachronism.  I've seen too many god-awful
> mid-phrase line wraps and trailing backslashes that could have been avoided
> with something a bit longer (like 100 chars).
> 
> In addition to code wrapping, I'm a little bugged by indented comment
> blocks with 80 character line wrapping so that fewer than 40 chars are
> available per line of text. It sucks to update those comment blocks and
> then rewrap them so that a diff cannot easilly show what had changed.


I think about the same way on this topic.
+1 on relaxing guidelines constraints

> The days of 25x80 black and white CRTs are gone.
(Except I remember well green on black, and orange on black as well, CRTs ;-)

Denis
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