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

> Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font and therefore
> specifies the maximum line width as a character count?

Python doesn't require the use of any particular font for editing your
code.

However programmers tend to use fixed width fonts when editing code
because then the visual representation of indentation works
consistently. But that's not a python specific thing.