On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 08:40:06 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 02/11/2012 08:08, Martin Hewitson wrote: >> >> Even if one takes reasonable numbers: 20 methods, each method has 20 >> lines of documentation, then we immediately have 400 lines in the file >> before writing a line of code. It would seem much more natural to me to >> have these methods in their own file, grouped nicely in >> sub-directories. But it seems this is not the python way. Sigh. >> >> Thanks for your thoughts, >> >> Martin >> >> > 20 lines of documentation per method? As far as I'm concerned that's > not a smell, that's a stink.
Depends on the method. For some, 20 lines is 18 lines too many. For others, that's 80 lines too few. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
