"Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote in message news:52e473fc$0$29999$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com... > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:18:44 +0200, Frank Millman wrote: > >> I have realised that we unlikely to come to an agreement on this in the >> near future, as our philosophies are completely different. >> >> You [Chris Angelo] have stated that your objective is to express as >> much as possible in Python code. >> >> I have stated that my objective is to express as little as possible in >> Python code. > > Interesting perspective. >
[...] I did not really want to continue this, but I have to respond to that. There is a sub-context within which I made my statement. Here is a quote from one of my earlier posts - > Each form definition is stored as gzip'd XML in a database, and linked to > the > menu system. There is just one python program that responds to the > selection > of a menu option, retrieves the form from the database, unpacks it and > runs it. I do not expect anyone to read or edit the XML - it is just a storage format. I am sure it could be done in JSON or YAML as well. One objective is to make it easy for non-programmers to modify forms and create new ones. I showed a screenshot earlier that illustrated a 'button' definition. Frank -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
