pep8

Is it bad that I don't follow PEP 8 and cut my lines at 79 characters?

I think every Python code has seen PEP 8. The part that sticks out to me is: Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters. I'm sitting here on a widescreen monitor and coding right across the screen. I'm not coding in a terminal and don't plan on coding in a terminal. I therefor have no problems with character-line limits. How many ...

Vim: Use shorter textwidth in comments and docstrings

From the mighty PEP 8: [P]lease limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters. For flowing long blocks of text (docstrings or comments), limiting the length to 72 characters is recommended. When editing Python code in Vim, I set my textwidth to 79, and Vim automatically wraps long lines of Python code for me when I hit the charact...

Strange PEP8 recommandation on comparing Boolean values to True or False

At the end of python PEP8 I'm reading: Don't compare boolean values to True or False using == Yes: if greeting: No: if greeting == True: Worse: if greeting is True: I have no problem with that recommandation when the boolean is True, but it sounds strange when checking for False If I want to know if variable greeting is False...