Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <patentsvnc@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.052
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.90; '*S*': 0.00; 'finished.': 0.07; 'width': 0.07; 'to:addr:comp.lang.python': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'typing': 0.17; 'preferred': 0.20; 'suggested': 0.20; 'wednesday,': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.23; 'statement': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'ibm': 0.27; 'lines': 0.28; 'now?': 0.29; "people's": 0.29; 'character': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'related': 0.30; 'goes': 0.33; 'zero': 0.33; 'program,': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'characters': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'october': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'subject:-': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'personally': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'maximum': 0.63; 'our': 0.65; 'strategies': 0.76; 'cards,': 0.84; 'horse': 0.84; 'roads': 0.91
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:55:51 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2403.1350540402.27098.python-list@python.org>
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.78.228.100; posting-account=IjvQZAoAAABQmfwQ8OkW4RQ3F67_LSJ2
References: <mailman.2403.1350540402.27098.python-list@python.org>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-Google-Web-Client: true
X-Google-IP: 208.78.228.100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness
From: Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com>
To: comp.lang.python@googlegroups.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Cc: python-list@python.org
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Message-ID: <mailman.2449.1350575755.27098.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 20
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1350575755 news.xs4all.nl 6909 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:50779
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:31655

On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:06:43 PM UTC-7, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> :
>=20
>=20
> What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go
>=20
> over 79 characters? A few I can think of off the bat:
>=20

I personally just keep typing until my statement is finished.  This is my p=
rogram, not PEP's.

But I have to say I'm amused by the whole question, and others related to P=
EP8.  A quick aside, the width of our roads all go back to the width of a t=
wo horse rig.  The suggested maximum of 80 characters goes back to teletype=
 machines, and IBM cards, and character based terminals

Should that really be the basis for a suggested style now?

Den