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On Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:06:43 AM UTC-6, Zero Piraeus wrote:
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> 
> Okay, so, first thing vaguely Python-related that comes to mind [so
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> probably not even slightly original, but then that's not really the
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> point]:
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> 
> 
> What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go
> 
> over 79 characters? A few I can think of off the bat:
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> 
> 
> 1. Say "screw it" and go past 79, PEP8 be damned.
> 
Once you ":set cc=79", you never want to cross it.

> 
> 
> 2. Say "screw it" and break the line using a backslash.
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> 
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> 3. Say "well, at least it's not a backslash" and break the line using
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> parentheses.
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> 
Some nice, IMHO, tips on the style can be found in:
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html#Line_length


Cheers!