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10th November 2017 - Link Blog

Exploring Line Lengths in Python Packages. Interesting exploration of the impact if the 79 character length limit rule of thumb on various Python packages—and a thoroughly useful guide to histogram plotting in Jupyter, pandas and matplotlib.

Posted 10th November 2017 at 3:34 pm

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