On 2014-02-19 08:49, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Are you telling me you're willing to search through a single > > file containing 3,734 lines of code (yes, Tkinter) looking > > for a method named "destroy" of a class named "OptionMenu" > > At my last job, I had a single C++ file of roughly 5K lines, and > it wasn't at all unmanageable. Probably wouldn't have been a > problem to have another order of magnitude on that. What sort of > wimpy text editor are you using that you can't find what you're > looking for in a single large file?
Even the venerable "ed" handles files of those sizes without batting an eye. I just opened a 2MB XML file (50k lines) in ed and jumped all around in it with no trouble at all. It's as simple as 1;/class OptionMenu/;/def destroy/ in most cases. If your editor can't help you do simple things like that, I recommend you find an editor that is at least as good as ed. :-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
