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<p>On 19/03/2020 07:07, Christian Mauderer wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I think we will have a really hard time to set up tools like formatters
or pylint to check and use these rules. I think setting a line length to
120 should be easy to possible for nearly any tool. But I expect that
setting it to 120 for code and 80 for comments can be <span class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>very<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span> difficult
depending on the tool.
PS: Reason for me being not a fan of long lines: While programming I
often use a split window. In that configuration my editor can show 112
columns in each window on my current screen. That fits well for nearly
all code that follows the 80 character convention. But for example your
proposed length of 120 the code will lead to either a smaller font, a
lot of random line breaks done by the editor or to loosing one window.
Again: It's not a strong opinion and I'll accept 120 too. But expect
that some others have stronger opinions about 80 characters.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I run everything in text mode under tmux and in Emacs I split vertically and
variable length is painful and prefer we settle on 80.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Maybe let's wait whether there are more opinions. Currently we have
- one clear vote for 120 lines (Amar)
- one clear vote for 80 lines (Chris)
- one a bit undecided with tendency to shorter lines (myself)</pre>
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<p>I think we should stay with the traditional 80 characters per
line. It is also recommended by the Google Python Style Guide:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#32-line-length">http://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#32-line-length</a></p>
<p>It allows some exceptions which all make sense from my point of
view.</p>
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