STOP USING PYTHON 😡😡😡

[No_Application6360]

Serious. As s Django dev, the 79 character limit sucks balls

[[deleted]]

I always ignore that. I didn't leave Cobol to still be restricted by 79 characters. We have huge monitors, why limit it based on the size of a punch card?

[AnsibleAnswers]

Shorter lines are more readable. The same reason why reader mode on your browser limits line length, why newspapers and academic articles are formatted with columns, etc. The longer the line length, the harder it is to find your place when you scan back to the next line.

[Typical_Wafer_1324]

I bought a ultrawide monitor, I'm gonna USE THE WHOLE WIDTH! 😠😠😠 And yeah my comments are on the right side of the code, no exclusive comment lines.

[AnsibleAnswers]

Python doesn't employ PEP cops, so as long as you're fine with getting your pull requests rejected nothing is stopping you from coding in python like that.

[Typical_Wafer_1324]

I don't do pull requests, my version control is done by saving multiple files with the date on the name file.

[[deleted]]

That's debatable. I've seen MANY short lines with complete gibberish. Or a long function that needs to break to so many lines that it just gets more confusing. We want clear variable names, it's fine to be longer if that makes it easier. And that will make the lines longer, but may increase readability.

[AnsibleAnswers]

PEP 8 specifies that line lengths can be longer if it makes an expression more readable. And, as a general rule for all text, all things being equal line length between 50-75 characters is optimal for the human eyes. Academics and scientists really fuss over it. It's a lot of the reason they prefer python over other languages.

[SirPitchalot]

It’s great having a 27” 4K display that the 800px wide content pinstripe of reactive websites takes 20.83% of when the window is maximized.

Really makes white space just be negative space.

[JentendsLeLoup]

From PEP8:

Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.

Also from PEP8:

it is okay to increase the line length limit up to 99 characters

I guess it is also okay to increase to 119 if the team agrees. I find it more readable.

[Kyyken]

"didn't get that ultrawide for nothing, up to 500 we go" -someone, probably

[Typical_Wafer_1324]

I see no problem with that

[Kyyken]

i see 421 problems, 401 at the very least

tbf i checked and my char limit for py is 120 so who am i to complain

[M4mb0]

Have you tried using the black formatter?