On 30.04.2010 12:51, * Lie Ryan:
On 04/30/10 12:07, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
On 30.04.2010 01:29, * Carl Banks:
On Apr 28, 11:16 am, "Alf P. Steinbach"<al...@start.no> wrote:
On 28.04.2010 18:54, * Lie Ryan:
Python have triple-quoted string when you want to include large amount
of text;
Yes, that's been mentioned umpteen times in this thread, including
the *very
first* quoted sentence above.
It's IMHO sort of needless to repeat that after quoting it, and
providing yet
another example right after quoting an example.
Probably you didn't notice?
I think he repeated it just to let people know that they can get what
they want without following your adsurd advice.
Perhaps you could quote the advice that you find absurd, and explain how
you interpret the quoted text?
My previous experience with you is that you immediately called me
"insane" (and worse) for suggesting a solution that could work in
principle and did work in practice for the problem posed in that thread;
I think you resorted to such characterizations because you had stated
that it was impossible.
I don't know about your feud with Carl, but for this particular thread,
the problem is that your solution involves much more manual work than is
necessary. Even worse, you suggested to "write a Python script to format
it for you". That is the worse piece of advice I've ever heard.
If you have a 5K string without line breaks, say, then it's entirely reasonable
to write a script to split it up, depending on your fav editor's lack of
functionality for that. Perhaps you'd like to do it manually. I don't.
Yes, your advices works perfectly if you follow it; except that it adds
something to my worklist instead of lifting it.
No, you simply haven't thought it through.
I suspect that you have formed some silly idea in your mind about what I wrote
meant, and that that in-your-mind silly idea is what you're arguing against, for
otherwise your comments do not make sense (like, you state that saving work adds
work).
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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