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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
| Subject | Re: PEP8 79 char max |
| Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:56:22 -0400 |
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:18:45 -0500, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
declaimed the following:
>
>Just for grins, I grabbed a non-computer book, Atul Gawande's
>"Checklist Manifesto," from the pile on my desk and counted the number
>of characters in a full-width line. 70. Then I grabbed my copy of
>"Mastering Regular Expressions" and counted the number of characters
>in a full-width line of text which also included a few special
>characters. 80.
>
>I think the history of printing offers a good gauge for the useful
>limits to line length. After all, print publishers have been at this
>for more than a few years.
>
Though print industry, as I recall, went by the concept of a line being
2 to 3 "alphabets" wide (depending upon font). So: 52-78...
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