The Best Line Length is 88
The Best Line Length What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard? programmingpythonsaccades Thursday August 07, 2025 What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard? This is, of course, a trick question. By posing it as a question, I have created the misleading impression that it is a question, but Black has selected the correct number for you; it’s 88 which is obviously very lucky. Thanks for reading my blog. OK, OK. Clearly, there’s more to it than that. This is an age-old debate on the level of “tabs versus spaces”. So contentious, in fact, that even the famously opinionated Black does in fact let you change it. Ancient History One argument that certain silly people1 like to make is “why are we wrapping at 80 characters like we are using…
