A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

[Demian Brecht]

> 3. Say "well, at least it's not a backslash" and break the line using
> parentheses.

This. More times than not, there's a function call in that line, which
makes sense to me when reading it if the args are on the next line.

> 4. Spend 45 minutes trying to think up shorter [but still sensible]
> variable names to make it fit.

I generally can't shorten my variable names without breaking the
minimum length PEP8 rule ;)


Now having said that, it kind of depends on the code base I'm working
with. If it's my own project, I never go past 79 characters (vim
tw=79). However, if it's a code base that I didn't start and it seems
to consistently go past 79 characters, I'll usually follow suit (with
my feet dragging of course). Nothing worse than inconsistency, even if
it's a standard I don't necessarily agree with :P