`but he would put sometimes 20 statements into one line of code` This is why Python's PEP8 recommends an 80 char limit on line length. Not because at column 8

`but he would put sometimes 20 statements into one line of code` This is why Python's PEP8 recommends an 80 char limit on line length. Not because at column 81 the code magically becomes more complicated, but because if you're struggling to make it all fit on one line, it's probably a good sign that you need to factor out some complexity. Although you could certainly still write extremely terse (read: unreadable) code with less than 80 chars per line.