How do I set the maximum line length in PyCharm

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I am using PyCharm on Windows and want to change the settings to limit the maximum line length to 79 characters  as opposed to the default limit of 120 characters   Where can I change the maximum amount of characters per line in PyCharm

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For PyCharm 2017   We can follow below  File    Settings    Editor    Code Style   Then provide values for Hard Wrap  amp  Visual Guides for wrapping while typing  tick the checkbox   NB  look at other tabs as well  viz  Python  HTML  JSON etc

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For PyCharm 2018 1 on Mac   Preferences        then Editor - gt  Code Style     For PyCharm 2018 3 on Windows   File -  Settings  Ctrl Alt S   then Editor - gt  Code Style   To follow PEP-8 set Hard wrap at to 80

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For anyone  or myself if I reload my machine  who this is not working for when you do a code reformat there is an additional option to check under editor- code style- python   ensure right margin is not exceeded   Once this was selected the reformat would work

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You can even set a separate right margin for HTML  Under the specified path   File    Settings    Editor    Code Style    HTML    Other Tab    Right margin  columns   This is very useful because generally HTML and JS may be usually long in one line than Python

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For PyCharm 4  File    Settings    Editor    Code Style  Right margin  columns   suggestion  Take a look at other options in that tab  they re very helpful

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Here is screenshot of my Pycharm  Required settings is in following path  File - gt  Settings - gt  Editor - gt  Code Style - gt  General  Right margin  columns

[python] How do I set the maximum line length in PyCharm?

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