On 2006-09-13, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Exactly how am I supposed to use my text editor to make words bold? Is >>> every text editor supposed to understand a "python format" for code? >> >> The standard answer here to people complaining about their editor not >> working well with python is that they should use a better editor. > > In general, that is true for the 21st century. But under certain > circumstances, one might be forced to use a vi over a limited b/w terminal > to fix that goddamn bug on the live system.
AFAIR, even those terminals had a form of highlighting. And personnaly I would think PEP 0263 would be potentially more annoying than this idea in those circumstances. > Even though you don't care about the pesky details, it boils down to > introducing an escape mechanism that will surround whatever identifiers > there are. Which looks crap in anything except and python-aware editor. > > But I bet you don't work with e.g. subversion to display diffs and the > like... I wouldn't be surprised that looking at diffs from files that use PEP 0263 could look like crap too. Yes some decisions can cause some tools to be less usefull. I would say that the right cause of action is then to adapt those tools. Not to let something like that stop your decision. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
