Re: Conforming to pep8

> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:36:29PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > William Giokas wrote:
> > > E401: Multi-line imports seems like something that would just be
> > > changing one line
> > 
> > Yes, and make the code very annoying.
> 
> It's 1 extra line in git-remote-hg, and 4 lines in git-remote-bzr.

> > > E302: Blank lines don't seem to be that hard to do either. That can even
> > > be automated quite reliably. It shouldn't detract from the readability,
> > > juts makes the file a bit longer.
> > 
> > The problem is not that it's hard to do, the problem is that it makes
> > the code uglier.
> 
> I would disagree, but this is one of the less important things.
> 
> > > E20{1,2,3}: Extra whitespace is something that just makes things more
> > > consistent and readable.
> > 
> > I don't see how this:
> > 
> >   {'100755': 'x', '120000': 'l'}
> > 
> > Is more readable than this:
> > 
> >   { '100755': 'x', '120000': 'l' }
> > 
> > No strong opinion on this one though.
> 
> It's not so much that it's wrong or less readable, but there is
> inconsistency on this one and I'd err pep8. Again, will send a patch to
> your tree for you to review, though it looks like you mostly fixed this
> in [1].

> > > >   max-line-length = 160
> > > 
> > > The standard states that this should, at most, be increased to a value
> > > between 80 and 100.
> > 
> > And why's that?
> > 
> > This has been discussed many times in the LKML, and the end result is
> > that we don't live in the 60's, our terminals are not constrained to 60
> > characters. Going beyond 100 is fine.
> 
> Fair enough. At the same time, it'd only change 14 lines in the current
> git.git tree and would probably increase the readability of some of the
> sections. I noticed that some of the changes in the referenced patch
> actually fixed this on a few lines as well.