Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats a strange self-contradiction.  I wrote this:
>  http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/layout-imperative-in-functional.html
> to make the case against PEP8 style line length strictures.
> Which has the SAME code formatted in two styles:
>
> --  < 80 cols, 48 lines
> --  115 cols 37 lines
>
> Clearly the 115 cols is MORE fittable in a page than the 80 cols
> [Though my argument for that is based on other structural/semantic principles]

There are certain specific situations where 80 (79) is the correct
width to aim for, but even if you aren't going for that, there's still
the general principle that longer lines are harder to read. So maybe
you declare that your codebase is allowed to go to 100, or 120, but
you don't want to let it run to 2048. No matter WHAT screen you're on,
that's too wide!

ChrisA