How Do I Keep Python Code Under 80 Chars Without Making It Ugly?

Question

This is a question that keeps recurring in all of my programming, python and otherwise. I really like to keep my code under 80 chars if at all possible/not horribly ugly. In a l

Answer 1

self.SomeLongLongName = SomeLongLongName.\
    SomeLongLongName(some_obj, self.user1, self.user2)

'\' is your friend. Of course, you already know that you can split lines in an argument list at commas, without using '\'. Also, if you have long strings:

myLongString = "This is a really long string that is going to be longer than 80 characters so oh my what do I do to make this work out?"

becomes:

myLongString = "This is a really long string that is going to be longer than"\
    " 80 characters so oh my what do I do to make this work out?"

This works because Python will combine adjacent string literals, ignoring whitespace between the adjacent literal strings.