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

[David Stanek]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Aaron Rubin
<aaron.rubin at 4dtechnology.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:25 PM, David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Aaron Rubin
>> <aaron.rubin at 4dtechnology.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 20 May 2009 17:44:54 -0700
>> >> Aaron Rubin <aaron.rubin at 4dtechnology.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > printers are used less (which is already happening), etc. then
>> >> > standards
>> >> > for
>> >> > core libraries will probably change as well.
>> >>
>> >> But PDAs and Netbooks are being used more and more.
>> >
>> > You can't possibly make a case that programming on either of these
>> > devices
>> > should be what we should cater to.  I want to program on my Palm phone
>> > as
>> > well, but I have to accept that the world won't try to accommodate me,
>> > but
>> > the other way around.
>> >
>>
>> I like programming on my EEE.
>
> I have an EEE as well.  But I don't expect the community to cater to me.
>

I don't think I'm expecting to be catered to because of the netbook.
To me 80 just works well and is in the current PEP. So I'm happy. I
just think that the people that say using 80 characters takes more
time is using a very crappy editor.

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