PYTHON: 79 chars or not (pep8)

Post date: Feb 14, 2011 10:52:32 AM

The most difficult thing in pep8 is 79 chars.

I think that no one project apply this rule.

You can check percentage of not pep-8 strings in your project by two simple commands:

    find -name "*.py" | xargs wc -l

Lines that have more than 79 characters :

    find -name "*.py" | xargs awk '{ if (length($0) > 79) printf("%s:%s\n", FILENAME, FNR);}' | wc -l

and compare with other projects you use =)