On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:47 AM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Greg Ewing > <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>wrote: > >> René Dudfield wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of removing the single calls, and only having multiple ones >>> available - to force people into using the more efficient methods. >>> >> >> -1 if this means I'd have to build a list if I just want >> to draw one item, because that introduces inefficiencies >> of its own and makes the code less clear. >> >> > I understand the concerns about readability, and speed impacts. > > However, I'm not sure it adds much clutter visually for the single use > case. Just add a couple of extra brackets. > > Also, the most common use case is drawing multiple items. I can't think of > one real application where I've only drawn one element off the top of my > head. I've had applications where I want to draw a single line, and many where I've wanted to draw a single circle, arc, or polygon. I don't expect that performance is a big issue, but I think it makes sense to have a version for just drawing a single item. Every graphical API that I'm familiar with allows you to draw a single item without putting it in a container. Is it common not to? Should pygame.draw.line be deprecated as well? -Christopher
