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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:15:06 -0700
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On 05/14/2014 03:53 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> In article <a3253d6a-ef89-49d5-b866-8c06a7462219@googlegroups.com>,
> Rustom Mody  <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:37:24 PM UTC+5:30, Ganesh Pal wrote:
>>> Hi  Team ,
>>>
>>>
>>> what would be the best way to intent the below line .
>>>
>>> I have few lines in my program exceeding the allowed maximum line
>> Length of 79./80 characters
>>>
>>> Example 1 :
>>>
>>>
>>>     p =
>> Subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd),stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>>
>>
>> First rule of python-list: Pay careful attention to Peter Otten.
>>
>> That said...
>>
>> 80-character limit?!
>>
>> Sheesh! A relic of the days when terminals were ASCII and 80x24

Which is a relic of the even older punch cards which contained one line 
of (up to) 80 characters.

Gary Herron


> 80 character was the hard limit.
> The soft limit for readability is 60..65 characters.
> Think about it.
>
> Just that a language accepts
> #define MASK_SEPIA_INTERNAL_BLEEDING_WASHINGTON_DC_BLACK 0x147800fa
> means that it is a good idea to do so.
>
> Groetjes Albert