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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:19:41 -0400
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On 8/1/2013 3:52 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Newly revised this morning:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length
> summary:
> 72 for text block (comments, triple-quoted strings)
> 79 for normal code
> 99 for code that is really more readable with extra
Or maybe not for stdlib. Guido think this is too 'loose'.

>
> The diff with all the changes is here
> http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy