Rest assured, Kent, that I fully understand your point. My experience is quite a lot more limited than yours, and yes I experience this frustrating mess that you talk about and I'm aware that I'm not doing myself any favor with such a design. Sorting this is high on my TODO list..... but not on top I'm affraid.... for now :-)
The next project will start off better, I hope :-) Cheers Bernard On 1/4/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernard Lebel wrote: > > Here is the script (1550 lines, I know - just wants to get to > > functional code before improving the design), if it can help. > > Hmm, a common attitude but a bad plan and false economy IMO. In my > experience if I keep the code and the design clean as I go, development > moves faster because - surprise! - I am always working with clean code > whose design fits the current needs. At the end I have clean, > well-designed maintainable code. If I ignore design and expect to clean > up at the end, I end up with a frustrating mess that I would rather not > look at and anyway it's too tangled to fix. > > And sorry, I don't have a clue what is causing your glibc error... > > Kent > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor