Sublime Text Settings for Writing PEP 8 Python

Key Takeaways

hey there it's Daniel with another Sublime Text tip for python developers uh today I want to show you a setting that is really helpful if you're writing uh pep 8 compliant code let's say if you're contributing to a code base uh for an open source project that follows the pep8 recommendations um then this is going to be really handy for you so uh pep8 makes some recommendations on the maximum line length for your code uh namely they uh they recommend that for Doc string you should limit yourself to 72 characters and for any other line of code regular line of code it's okay to go up to 79 characters and um there's actually a really helpful feature in Sublime Text which is called the ruler feature you can uh enable and it will place these uh vertical lines here um at the line length that you've specified in in the user preferences so that you will instantly know when you're approaching that limit so I have that first ruler here for my dock strings so I will instantly know okay you know I'm approaching the line length uh better insert a line break here and then for regular lines of code I also have the the second ruler which is going to tell me hey you're going to you're getting close to the 79 uh character limit um careful or you know you want to restructure that a bit um so I find those really helpful and another setting that I've enabled here isbl L Tex word wrap feature so what that does is if you get a line uh of code that is actually longer than the word rap limit which I set to 80 which is um one more than the maximum allowed line length so I don't you know I don't want to wrap lines that are shorter than 80 characters so what happens if I approach that limit is that sube text is going to wrap the line which means that it appears like there are actually several lines here now but you can tell that on the left there are only there's only one line number for for this line which means it's it's uh in actuality it's actually it's one giant super long line and it's not like four different lines so I find this very handy because um that way I can have multiple editor windows open at the same time and I can be sure that as long as my width for that window is longer than 80 characters or at least 80 characters I'm going to be able to see all of the code uh at once without having to scroll horizontally because that just drives me nuts uh I really like to see everything at a glance I want to know what I'm working with so I find these settings um very helpful if you're working with pep8 you know if you're using a modification of Pep 8 let's say if you're if you're bumping up the uh the line length limit in your team then of course feel free to tweak that I've worked on some teams where we used 99 or 109 as the maximum length and and that was that was okay too but if you really want to follow pep8 then these are the settings that you want [Music] um and then you'll end up with a setup like the one I'm showing you cool so give this a shot I think it makes uh life a little bit easier and I hope that was helpful to you okay bye now