On 30.04.2010 19:31, * Lie Ryan:
On 05/01/10 00:01, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
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.
Use triple-quoted, let them flow, done. I've never heard of any text
editor in current use without text wrapping capability, even Notepad has
it. And if I've got 5k of text in source code without line breaks I
wouldn't want that silly string to disturb my view of the code. You
argument aren't even convincing.
You'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're working with text wrapping in
your editor.
OK.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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