Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-08-02 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 1 août 2013 02:50:13 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : ... rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.) ... Very interesting aspect in LibreOffice. As the center of gravity of the development has moved

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-08-01 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-08-01, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with

Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a spreadsheet. Skip --

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). My guess is it would be more foolproof

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-07-31, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:29 +0100, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Rhodri James
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:29 +0100, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). My guess is it

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a spreadsheet. Many years ago, I worked with somebody who used a spreadsheet like that. I really love Emacs, however... One of the traders here where I work (who shall not be named) had a space-delimited data file with hundreds

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Wanderer
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:39:29 PM UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). My guess

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
Has anyone tried Pyspread? I have not. I have a fundamental problem with spreadsheets, the extremely narrow view of the workspace. There was a piece on NPR the other day about some errors in some modeling applications. I missed most of it (does someone have a link? I'm on my phone right now),

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I want