Define functions with too many arguments to abide by PEP8 standard

Question

I have defined a function with a long list of arguments. The total characters in definition is above 80 and doesn\'t abide by PEP8.

def my_function(argument_one,         


        

Answer 1

I find myself this way to be quite interesting:

def my_function(
        argument_one, argument_two, argument_three,
        argument_four, argument_five
):
    ...

it allows code-folding to reveal the function signatures quite easily, for instance, consider the below snippet:

def my_function(
        argument_one, argument_two, argument_three,
        argument_four, argument_five
):
    s1 = 1
    s2 = 2
    if s1 + s2:
        s3 = 3


def my_other_function(argument_one, argument_two, argument_three):
    s1 = 1
    s2 = 2
    if s1 + s2:
        s3 = 3

This way allows to code-folding the whole file and seeing all functions/signatures at once, ie: