PEP8 revised: max line lengths

Joshua Landau joshua at landau.ws
Fri Aug 2 22:21:02 EDT 2013


On 2 August 2013 22:34, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:15 PM,  <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
 > Problem #3
> > cm or inch? The only serious unit is an SI unit.
> > (In scientific publications, only SI units are accepted)
>
> The cm is not a primary SI unit either.


But it is an SI unit.

(As a side note, humorously when watching University Challenge today one of
the semi-finalist teams were unable to convert degrees fahrenheit to
celsius. This just goes to show that non-SI units are e̶v̶i̶l̶ hard.)


> > Hint: Put you code in a pdf.
>
> Hint: Put your code in a bitmap for screens *and* a PDF for printing.
> That's the only way to guarantee that it'll work.
>
> Since this is not possible, there is one solution left: Do not view
> your code on screen, but only print it out. Then you can guarantee
> that your columns are as you expected. Python could be enhanced to
> take advantage of this; for instance, instead of requiring the hash
> character (which may be difficult to type on certain keyboards,
> including mobile phones), a letter C (U+0043) in column 1 can cause
> the line to be considered a Comment.
>

This is jmf. It'd have to be a Euro.
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