PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
> Under the assumption that leading white space is important for
> code formatting, but that all alignment after that is
> unimportant.

...unless you're trying to adhere to a line length limit.  "80
characters" is a lot easier to do in a fixed-width font, and "10
inches" or "400 pixels" or however you want to do it in a proportional
font effectively limits you to using that specific font, at that
specific size.