I do my best to keep my code concise and make it look neat, but I optimize
for modern monitors. However, I always send email or post to usenet at 80
columns, so it felt a bit awkward posting my source. :-/
I'm afriad I'm stuck in the rut of trying to keep my code within 80
columns whenever possible. To some degree that probably means I go
overboard with simplifying and breaking stuff into functions. I'm not
quite as crazy about it as I used to be though. At one point I'd never
embed one code loop inside another without breaking the inner loop into
it's own function. It makes code neat but makes finding names for all
your functions problematic. Also I was told Python doesn't inline such
minor functions when compiling so I guess it is bad for optimization.