PEP8 revised: max line lengths

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Aug 2 21:20:19 EDT 2013


On 8/2/2013 1:19 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>> On 8/1/2013 7:33 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
>>> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The diff with all the changes is here
>>>>>> http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity, where is "coding cookie" defined?  I found enough
>>> distant references to decide it was supposed to mean the coding line
>>> (line 2, typically in Unix).  But I originally thought it meant the BOM.
>>>
>>> It must have a different name in the reference, but i can't seem to find
>>> it right now.  If indeed it has a different name, then Pep8 should use
>>> that name.
>>
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue18628
>>
>
> Thanks for the mention in the issue report.

That way I share both credit and blame, as the case turns out to be ;-).

Anyway, the PEP is revised, but the index still needs the entry revised 
to 'Encoding declaration'.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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