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Subject: Re: PEP8 79 char max
From: Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com>
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On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> =
wrote:

>> Would following
>> this recommendation improve script performance?
>=20
> Not performance, but human readability

	IMO, this isn't always the case. There are many lines of code =
that are broken up to meet the 79 character limit, and as a result =
become much less readable.=20


-- Ed Leafe