Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: PEP8 79 char max Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <51F6C5F5.5020201@Gmail.com> <51f6e1d8$0$30000$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <51F6ED13.5010508@Gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1375206751 20064 64.122.56.22 (30 Jul 2013 17:52:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:52:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51590 On 2013-07-30, Joshua Landau wrote: > On 30 July 2013 18:08, Vito De Tullio wrote: > >> Ed Leafe wrote: >> >> > I had read about a developer who switched to using proportional fonts for >> > coding, and somewhat skeptically, tried it out. After a day or so it >> > stopped looking strange, and after a week it seemed so much easier to >> > read. >> >> By my (limited) experience with proportional fonts, they can be useful only >> with something like elastic tabstops[0]. But, as a general rule, I simply >> found more "squared" to just use a fixed-width font. >> > > Not if you give up on the whole "aligning" thing. You don't think that Python code at a given level should all be aligned? I find it very helpful when a given block of code is visually left-aligned. I also find intializers for tables of data to be much more easily read and maintained if the columns can be aligned. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! MMM-MM!! So THIS is at BIO-NEBULATION! gmail.com