On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Tobiah <tob...@teranews.com> wrote: > While I understand and agree with that basic tenet, I think > that the capitalized 'ONLY' is too strong. I do split out > code into function for readability, even when the function > will only be called from the place from which I split it out. >
This can be good and can be bad. It's good when it aids readability; it's bad when you need to pass practically the entire locals() as function arguments and/or return values. I would split the function only when both halves (caller and callee) can be given short and useful names - if you can't explain what a block of code does in a few words, it's probably a poor choice for splitting out into a function. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
