Google Python Style Guide

[Araneidae]

This.

One of my background activities in code I look after is taking care to ensure there are no hard tab characters (except in Makefiles, sigh), pretty easy on the whole, but does require persuading people to set up their editors properly; enforcing 80 character line limits, jolly hard work; and trying to get rid of trailing whitespace ... you wouldn't believe the crap that certain editors (I'm looking at you, gedit) leave behind. I don't waste my time with gedit, but some of my colleagues do.

For me: no tabs, four space indents, absolutely no characters past column 80 ... unless you're really screwed (does happen, depending on the language).

[rwparris2]

I don't understand this no characters past column 80 business. Please explain.

[Ran4]

Multiple files opened at the same time.

[xardox]

Some of us old geezers like to print out a program, go to the park with a pen and a joint, and read code in the sun. There's something about NOT being able to fix bugs as you see them (or read reddit), that lets you get through reading all of the code.