Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Larry Martell]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:18 PM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 16/04/2016 17:58, Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> if we still had 1970's 80 character TTYs that would matter but on my
>> 29" 1920x1080 screen it doesn't.
>
>
> There are reasons why 'broadsheet' newspapers don't have a single wide
> column spanning the entire width of the page, but are divided into multiple
> columns.

Nor do they have a \ at the end of each line with the following line indented.