kj wrote:
I'm a Perlhead trying to learn the Way of Python. I like Python overall, but every once in a while I find myself trying to figure out why Python does some things the way it does. At the moment I'm scratching my head over Python's docstrings. As far as I understand this is the standard way to document Python code. I think that's fine for simple functions, but I have some functions that require a very long docstring to document, and somehow I find it a bit disconcerting to stick a few screenfuls of text between the top line of a function definition and its body. I guess I'm still a lot more comfortable with Perl's POD, which allows more flexibility on the placement of the documentation relative to the source code.
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Kynn
You might also look into using an editor that supports custom folding. Define docstrings as folds, then you only need open them when you want to read/edit them; the rest of the time, only one line is visible between the function header and the function. I like Vim. :)
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