This line was surely not 80 characters long but I tried to keep the same convention for every changes I've made.

The ')' on a new line can be discussed for sure, eventhough I don't see your point about Java.
My humble thought on that is that since python uses identation to separate the code depth/level, I find confusing to have the parenthese at the end like below:
```python
bot.say(
            "Your comment has been recorded. It will be shown when the"
            " chairs tell me to show the comments.")
```
It looks like the second and third lines are a whole new block level and not just the parameters of bot.say. I would be glad to discuss about this point.

I hope we can agree that the convention below is not practical:
```python
bot.say("Your comment has been recorded. It will be shown when the"
              " chairs tell me to show the comments.")
```
Since you have to manually hit the spacebar to get the same ident level for the second line.