PEP8 79 char max

Wed Jul 31 09:02:39 EDT 2013

On 2013年07月31日, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2013年07月31日 07:16, Joshua Landau wrote:
>> On 30 July 2013 18:52, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> I also find intializers for tables of data to be much more easily
>>> read and maintained if the columns can be aligned.
>>>> Why do you have tables in your Python code?
>> I've had occasion to write things like:
>> for name, value, description in (
> ("cost", 42, "How much it cost"),
> ("status", 3141, "Status code from ISO-3.14159"),
> ...
> ):
> do_something(name, value)
> print(description)
>> I interpret Grant's statement as wanting the "table" to look like
>> for name, value, description in (
> ("cost", 42, "How much it cost"),
> ("status", 3141, "Status code from ISO-3.14159"),
> ...
> ):
> do_something(name, value)
> print(description)
>> which does give some modest readability benefits, but at a
> creation cost I personally am unwilling to pay.

I'm actually OK with the creation cost, but not the maintenance cost.
-- 
Neil Cerutti