Greetings:
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:11:28 +0100
> From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] loops to assign variables
> To: tutor@python.org
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>
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> "John CORRY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> > For example, I have 30 textentry boxes numbered from entry20 to
> > entry50.
> > I have used the following code to assign the entryboxes to a local
> > name.
> >
> > text20 = self.wTree.get_widget("entry20")
> > text21 = self.wTree.get_widget("entry21")
>
> This is not a resonse to Johns original request but a general
> comment on variable naming. It seems quite common in GUI
> work for folks to use this style of entryN, buttonM etc.
>
> But its not very programmer friendly! We wouldn't normally
> call our variables var1, var2 etc it makes the intent of the code
> much harder to comprehend. So we choose meaningful variable
> names like width, height, name, location etc.
>
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I agree with Alan here. Unless the numbers reflect some property of the
object being modeled (room numbers in a hotel, airline flight numbers,
TV channels, etc), they should not be used in the widget name.
My $0.02.
Regards,
Barry
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