On 2013-07-31, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2013-07-31 07:16, Joshua Landau wrote:
>> On 30 July 2013 18:52, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> I also find intializers for tables of data to be much more easily
>>> read and maintained if the columns can be aligned.
>>
>> Why do you have tables in your Python code?
>
> I've had occasion to write things like:
>
> for name, value, description in (
> ("cost", 42, "How much it cost"),
> ("status", 3141, "Status code from ISO-3.14159"),
> ...
> ):
> do_something(name, value)
> print(description)
>
> I interpret Grant's statement as wanting the "table" to look like
>
> for name, value, description in (
> ("cost", 42, "How much it cost"),
> ("status", 3141, "Status code from ISO-3.14159"),
> ...
> ):
> do_something(name, value)
> print(description)
>
> which does give some modest readability benefits, but at a
> creation cost I personally am unwilling to pay.
I'm actually OK with the creation cost, but not the maintenance cost.
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