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by bru 4488 days ago
>Likewise with the 80 character guideline in PEP

Definitely. The PEP8 was actually revised 6 months ago[0]. Nothing crazy, but a bit more pragmatic.

>For code maintained exclusively or primarily by a team that can reach agreement on this issue, it is okay to increase the nominal line length from 80 to 100 characters (effectively increasing the maximum length to 99 characters)

0: text: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-len...

commit : http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb