Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 6:49:34 AM UTC+5:30, sohcatoa wrote:
> On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 2:14:17 PM UTC-7, Pete Forman wrote:
> > Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font and therefore
> > specifies the maximum line width as a character count?
> > 
> > An essential part of the language is indentation which ought to continue
> > to mandate that lines start with a multiple of 4 em worth of space (or
> > some other size or encode with hard tabs, that is not germane to my
> > question). The content of the line need not be bound by the rules needed
> > to position its start.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pete Forman
> 
> "Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font "
> 
> This guy is trolling, right?

See elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest of world has 
moved on is rather backward:
http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/html-is-why-mess-in-programming-syntax.html