Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Ben Finney]

Pete Forman <petef4+usenet at gmail.com> writes:

> Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font

I think you know this isn't true.

> and therefore specifies the maximum line width as a character count?

and that this “therefore” is not justified by that.

You've seen elsewhere the justification for *having* a maximum line
width (primarily because of limits on human cognition of lines of text).

As for what the limit *is*, it's much better to have an easy-to-apply
and easy-to-measure rule, because consistent application is important
for such a guide.

Counting characters is objectively easy and easily comparable.

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Ben Finney