[openstack-dev] Revisiting current column number limit in code

Victor Sergeyev vsergeyev at mirantis.com
Wed Oct 30 08:24:04 UTC 2013


By the way, pep8 says, that "it is okay to increase the nominal line length
from 80 to 100 characters". See
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length

I'm ok with 80 characters, but just for information - is there any plans
to to increase the line length in OpenStack?

Victor


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Aaron Rosen <arosen at nicira.com> wrote:

> Here's what mine usually looks like :)
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Ravi Kumar Pasumarthy <
> ravikup at thoughtworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Looks like the current column limit for the code base is 80. Because of
>> this large space on the right hand side is not used. Please find the
>> attached pictures of couple of developer screens working on openstack
>> codebase.
>>
>> Are there any thoughts to increase the current column limit to 120
>> atleast.
>>
>> How does this help ? I can see more lines of code, it is easier on the
>> eyes. Some external monitors supports rotation, but for laptops we cannot
>> rotate.
>>
>> So is it possible to revisit the column number limit ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ravi Kumar Pasumarthy
>> Lead Consultant
>>
>> ThoughtWorks
>>
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