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by rpedroso 3668 days ago
To clarify, PEP 8 nonetheless recommends that lines be limited to 79 characters, and even recommends capping docstrings and comments to 72 characters. The python standard library follows those guidelines.

The 100-character allowance is for code "maintained exclusively or primarily by a team that can reach agreement on this issue".