On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:34:03 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote: > So in this situation I have sometimes created a quite small image (1 > bit/pixel) that encoded in png image format may require just few hundred > bytes. With Python I encode is binary data string in base64, and I paste > that as a string into the Python souce code. It probably takes only 4-7 > lines or so. [...] > Have you ever done this? Do you think such "documentation picture" > (analogous to a docstring) is an acceptable practice?
I've never done it, but I've often wished to be able to store diagrams in my code. > I don't need to do > that often enough, so I think it doesn't deserve to become supported by > Python itself. I can't imagine Python having direct syntactic support for it, but I don't see any reason why the standard library couldn't some day grow a "docpicture" module, complete with a tiny (?) Tkinter app to display the diagram when requested. I think this would be useful. If you choose to share your code under an appropriate licence, I would like to experiment with it. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
