On 2014-08-03, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.12587.1407077774.18130.python-l...@python.org>,
> Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> How to go about this is at "Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable),
>> Example" at http://sscce.org/
>
> It says there, "most readers will stop reading by 100 lines of code". I
> guess I have a short attention span relative to "most readers", because
> my tl;dnr threshold is a lot shorter than that.
Mine too. My limit is about one screen full -- how many lines that is
varies, but is rarely more than 40 lines.
> The other advantage to coming up with a minimal example is that often
> the exercise of cutting your problem down to a minimal example is enough
> to allow you to figure it out for yourself :-)
That is very true.
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