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

I find myself using more and more intermediate variables, that not only help stay within 80 characters, but make the code more readable by giving things descriptive names like:

old_name = 'reallylonguglypath/to/current/file.foo'
new_name = 'evenmoreuglylong/to/new/desination/for/file.foo' 
os.rename(old_name, new_name)

rather than:

os.rename("reallylonguglypath/to/current/file.foo",
              "evenmoreuglylong/to/new/desination/for/file.foo")

You can do this with long module and class names too

method = SomeLongClassName.SomeLongMethodName
self.SomeLongLongName = method(some_obj, self.user1, self.user2)