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authorJustin Mayer <entroP@gmail.com>2020-04-27 09:44:09 +0200
committerJustin Mayer <entroP@gmail.com>2020-04-27 09:45:30 +0200
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@@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ Contribution quality standards
<https://pypi.org/project/pycodestyle>`_ or `flake8
<https://pypi.org/project/flake8/>`_ tools, the latter of which in
particular will give you some useful hints about ways in which the
- code/formatting can be improved. If you are relying on your editor for PEP8
- compliance, note that the line length specified by PEP8 is 79 (excluding the
- line break).
+ code/formatting can be improved. We try to keep line length within the
+ 79-character maximum specified by PEP8. Because that can sometimes compromise
+ readability, the hard/enforced maximum is 88 characters.
* Ensure your code is compatible with the `officially-supported Python releases`_.
* Add docs and tests for your changes. Undocumented and untested features will
not be accepted.