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On 15 May 2014 03:28:17 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:


>Nope. Because the main driving force for 79 characters is not technology 
>but human reading.

	And even that is on the high side... publishing industry rule of thumb
is 2-2.5 "alphabets" (lower case, not both upper&lower) per line... Adjust
font size and margins to reach that.

http://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html
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