PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace

[Michael Brown]

On 2011-07-22, John Gordon wrote:

> In <98u00kFnfiU1 at mid.individual.net> Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> writes:
>
>> You can fit much more code per unit of horizontal space with a
>> proportionally spaced font. As a result, that issue, while valid,
>> is significantly reduced.
>
> Is it?  I assume one major reason for the 80-character limit is to help
> the poor sod who will eventually get stuck working with your code on an
> 80-column fixed width terminal window.
>

It's also because many people report that it's easier to read text when
it's not wider than ~75 characters.