[Twisted-Python] coding standard: column width?

[Clark C. Evans]

I asked this question in private (with regard to getting CVS access)
and Glyph indicated that he wouldn't mind whitespace changes
that strictly followed the indenting guidelines (4 spaces, no tabs),
but that he only wanted stuff like this changed when one is in
the vicinity of the offence; I infer, as to minimise testing overhead.

Best,

Clark

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:15:24PM +0000, Clark C. Evans wrote:
| So, would purely whitespace patches fixing lines that
| go over 79 columns be accepted?
| 
| On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:44:53PM -0500, Steve Waterbury wrote:
| | On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 23:33, Samuel Bronson wrote:
| | > Clark C. Evans wrote:
| | > >The (very clear) coding standards don't mention a preferred column width.  
| | > >Could it be possible to add a 76 column code wrap requirement.  This is 
| | > >useful for those of us who use your aged 80 column terminals, and more
| | >  
| | > Or code at the console, or prefer 80 column emacs windows ;-)
| | 
| | Right.  The Twisted coding standards are clear ... but they 
| | shouldn't have to say everything:  in the absence of explicit 
| | direction from the Twisted coding standard, the Python style 
| | guidelines should be followed (PEP 8 and PEP 257).
| 
| | From PEP 8 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html):
| | 
| |     There are still many devices around that are limited to 80
| |     character lines; plus, limiting windows to 80 characters makes it
| |     possible to have several windows side-by-side.  The default
| |     wrapping on such devices looks ugly.  Therefore, please limit all
| |     lines to a maximum of 79 characters (Emacs wraps lines that are
| |     exactly 80 characters long).  For flowing long blocks of text
| |     (docstrings or comments), limiting the length to 72 characters is
| |     recommended.
| 
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