In message <8jd3m9fr5...@mid.individual.net>, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2010-11-03, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > >> styles = [ >> ("normal", "image", MainWindow.ColorsNormalList), >> ("highlighted", "highlight", MainWindow.ColorsHighlightedList), >> ("selected", "select", MainWindow.ColorsSelectedList)] > > Agreed, except cute stuff like putting those three items in > columns is just as bad. > > Code should be utilitarian rather than ornate, Shaker rather than > Victorian.
Tufte’s concept of “chartjunk” could perhaps be extended to “formatjunk” or “prettyprintjunk”. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list