Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Sat Apr 16 12:51:58 EDT 2016


Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>:

> I have worked for many companies where you are required to get a clean
> run of pep8 on your code before your pull request will even be
> considered for approval. I don't agree with this at all, as I think it
> makes the code very ugly, especially enforcing the max line length.

Agh, I was with you until your last remark.

A max line length of 79 characters is among the *only* rigorous
principles I judge coding style on.

It comes with the maxim that one function must be visible at once on the
screen.


Marko



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