In article <le108a$oip$1...@dont-email.me>, Rotwang <sg...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >On 18/02/2014 23:41, Rick Johnson wrote: >> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:28:21 PM UTC-6, Rotwang wrote: > >[snipped material restored for context] > >>> On 18/02/2014 21:44, Rick Johnson wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> Are you telling me you're willing to search through a single >>>> file containing 3,734 lines of code (yes, Tkinter) looking >>>> for a method named "destroy" of a class named "OptionMenu" >>>> (of which three other classes contain a method of the same >>>> exact name!), when all you needed to do was open one single >>>> module named "tk_optionmenu.py" and do a single search for >>>> "def destroy"? >>>> >>>> You must be trolling! >>> >>> I have music software that's a single 9K-line Python module, which I >>> edit using Notepad++ or gedit. If I wish to find e.g. the method "edit" >>> of class "sequence" I can type >>> <Ctrl-f>class seq<Return>def edit(<Return >> >> This is not about "how to use a search function" > >No, it's about your incredulity that someone would search for a method >in a large file that contains several methods of the same name. However, >the existence of search functions makes this completely trivial.
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