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On 3 Aug 2013 11:07, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
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\> On 8/2/2013 6:19 AM, nick.coghlan wrote:
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\>> +The Python standard library is conservative and requires limiting
\>> +lines to 79 characters (and docstrings/comments to 72).
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\> If you (and Guido) mean that as a hard limit, then patchcheck should check line lengths as well as trailing whitespace.

That raises issues when modifying existing non-compliant files, because it removes the human judgement on whether a non-compliance is worth fixing or not.

Cheers,
Nick.

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