> it is okay to increase the line length limit up to 99 characters PEP8 is strongly biased towards making code readable, and has helped a generation of program

> it is okay to increase the line length limit up to 99 characters PEP8 is strongly biased towards making code readable, and has helped a generation of programmers start thinking about readability when coding. The line length limit, though, is one of the few parts of PEP8 that introduced defects as a practice. Holding to 80 characters causes: * string concatenation bugs from breaking up long strings * errors in expressions broken up into multiple expressions just to fit * bias to use shorter variable names My favorite part of PEP8 was the warning about "foolish consistency".