PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> A definitive Python source file could be binary, XML, .py, .ast,
> whatever, and that would also be the file fed to the Python
> compiler/interpreter. However, your editor could choose freely how to
> present it to you.
>
> IOW, shouldn't PEP8 be redundant?

I believe the Python interpreter happily accepts a zip file, which in
theory could be edited directly by a competent text editor. But that
has nothing to do with PEP 8. Compare a classic compiled language like
C - you have the bit you edit (the C source code) and the "definitive
version" that's fed to the program loader (the compiled binary). Style
guides apply to the edited version, not to the executed version.

ChrisA