[oofoe]

For what it's worth, in my opinion, if you need more than an 80 character line in Python, you're doing it wrong.

I currently maintain a large Python codebase where the original authors /needed/ big long lines. Anytime I see one of these big wads of bubble gum, I know I can rewrite it to be simpler, clearer and shorter (I've done it enough now). Fortunately, there are increasingly fewer of them...

It's important to remember that you're not just writing for the computer -- while it can take almost anything syntactically correct that you throw at it -- some human, somewhere will still have to read and understand that code.

It may be you, six months later.

[collyw]

I hate the 80 character limit. I find it counterproductive. Its usually faster to find a closing brace on the same line, than scan lines until you find it. Kind of the opposite effect of Python's whitespace. I like to leave my lines longer, as I find if gives my code shape that I can recognise.