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cjensen on Aug 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: PEP 8 Modernisation

The reason it's 79 instead of 80 is to allow for at least one funky glyph at the end of the line since many editors do that kind of thing.

penguindev on Aug 1, 2013 [–]

No, its so a diff looks good (with < or > lines in the first column)

edit: you're correct, that's the rationale in the pep. It's not why I stick at 79 though, I do it for git log -p, etc.

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