Re: Let's make it official then... recommend max line length 88

Charles R Harris <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Sep 2023 12:47:16 -0600

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On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 9:59 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why 88?
>
> It sounds a bit arbitrary to me to let a "random" CI tool make the
> policies.
> 9 characters does not look to me worth the effort.
>
> (Not that I really care for scipy style, but I don't see a reason to make
> this a new convention in scientific python.)
>
> Josef
>
>
ISTR seeing statistics on line length and adding a little bit could make a
significant change in the number of lines flagged. One could probably find
a lot of reasons to dispute that conclusion, wish I could recall where that
study was.

Chuck

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