Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner
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Date	2011-04-06 13:59 +1000
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Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> writes:

> On Apr 5, 6:38 am, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yeah, but we don't live in the 80's or 90's anymore and our screens
> > can support xterms (or let alone IDE widows) much wider than 80
> > characters. I'm using 140 for python these days. Seriously, who
> > would want to limit him/herself to 80 characters in 2011?

A broadsheet newspaper allows a whole lot of characters on a single
line, yet they still limit the width of each passage of text. The limit
on line length is not only for technical reasons, but for readability.

> I wonder how many people will shorten otherwise clear
> variable names just to get their lines to fit in 80 characters?

Not me. When the line is over 78 characters or so, I just break the line
at an appropriate point.

Line breaks (within bracketing syntax) are far less expensive than
uncommunicative variable names.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-03-29 16:06 -0400
  Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Martin De Kauwe <mdekauwe@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 02:19 -0700
    Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 20:31 +1100
    Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-03-30 16:39 -0700
    Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-03-31 16:02 +1300
      Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 15:38 +0200
        Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-05 15:07 +0000
          Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 01:19 +1000
            Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-05 17:48 +0000
          Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 19:54 +0200
          Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-04-09 00:27 +1000
        Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-04-05 17:10 -0700
          Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-06 13:59 +1000
          Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 11:34 +1000
      Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Tim Wintle <tim.wintle@teamrubber.com> - 2011-04-05 16:04 +0100

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