PEP8 revised: max line lengths

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le vendredi 2 août 2013 13:07:47 UTC+2, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick a écrit :
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
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> > In article <mailman.93.1375386763.1251.python-list at python.org>,
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> >  Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
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> >
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> >> Newly revised this morning:
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> >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length
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> >> summary:
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> >> 72 for text block (comments, triple-quoted strings)
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> >> 79 for normal code
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> >> 99 for code that is really more readable with extra
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> >
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> > And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and
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> > tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals.
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> The 99-characters rule does not apply for the stdlib.  And outside of
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> the stdlib, PEP 8 is not mandated by Python (but it might be by the
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> project leader or similar entities).  If someone wanted long lines,
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> then they could do so ALL THE TIME.
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> So, what are you feasting for?  Nothing?
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> -- 
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> Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://kwpolska.tk>
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And do not forget, a monospaced font is never monospaced
(for understandable reasons).
The solely valid solution, assuming there is some wish,
is to define a maximal line width (preferably in SI units ;-)

The day, the devs succeed to think non ascii, is not
arrived.

jmf

PS independently of the CJK stuff.