From d960a5fede167c85222e2b067da0885c0d7d7597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Lauf Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:29:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Drop the explicit 80-character limit from coding style - As a general rule of thumb: "one sentence/statement per line" Signed-off-by: Thomas Lauf --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 05c0406e..1dfe0fb7 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ To be a little more explicit, the common elements across the languages are: * With Python, follow PEP8 as much as possible * Surround operators and expression terms with a space * No cuddled braces -* Stick to 80 columns where possible, although exceptions are fine +* No need to stick slavishly to 80 characters per line, but do not make them overly long (rule of thumb: *One sentence/statement per line*)! * Class names are capitalized, variable names are not We target Python 3 so that our test suite runs on the broadest set of platforms.