From 2c4be937abbfcf67f8386d76422910de66491be4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Morgan Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 13:21:45 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Change to a simple line limit of 99 characters. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It was decided to ditch the soft 80/hard 100 in favour of just 100. Now although people speak of figures like 80, 79 is actually the number they mean, because terminals will tend to need an extra, blank line if you write 80-character-wide lines. This is reflected in PEP 8: > Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters. > … > Some teams strongly prefer a longer line length. For code maintained exclusively or primarily by a team that can reach agreement on this issue, it is okay to increase the nominal line length from 80 to 100 characters (effectively increasing the maximum length to 99 characters), provided that comments and docstrings are still wrapped at 72 characters. Therefore, having decided to go with 100, we’re actually going with 99. --- style/whitespace.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/style/whitespace.md b/style/whitespace.md index 3717e67..9956794 100644 --- a/style/whitespace.md +++ b/style/whitespace.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Whitespace [RFC] -* Lines _should_ not exceed 80 characters, and _must_ not exceed 100 characters. +* Lines must not exceed 99 characters. * Use 4 spaces for indentation, _not_ tabs. * No trailing whitespace at the end of lines or files.