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

[MRAB]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> 
>> My suggestion is to just bump it up a bit (perhaps to 100 chars).
> 
> If there's anything I'd suggest changing, it would be to
> reduce the recommended indentation from 4 chars to 2.
> That's what I use internally for my own code, and it
> seems to be a good compromise between readability and
> eating up too much width with indentation.
> 
I find an indentation of 4 characters to be a good compromise in a
language like Python where indentation is important.