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Subject: Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated
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Pete Forman <petef4+usenet@gmail.com> writes:

> My question asks why monospace is used for the text.

Used by whom? Python the programming language (and that includes PEP 8)
has nothing to say about what font you use in your text editor.

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