What is the maximum length for an attribute name in python?

Question

I\'m writing a set of python functions that perform some sort of conformance checking on a source code project. I\'d like to specify quite verbose names for these functions,

Answer 1

2.3. Identifiers and keywords from The Python Language Reference:

Identifiers are unlimited in length.

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But you'll be violating PEP-8 most likely, which is not really cool:

Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.

Also you'll be violating PEP-20 (the Zen of Python):

Readability counts.