On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:00 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Jun 10, 2016 6:37 AM, "Marko Rauhamaa" <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
>> If your display can show 1,500 lines at once, that's your limit. Mine >> shows 70. > > I disagree on that point. For a typical-size display, it's a reasonable > guideline. But just because your 1500-line function fits in a single > screen does not make it readable. I disagree. I have a 2000 inch monitor, and by using a narrow proportional font set to 5pt, I can display the entire Python standard library including tests on screen at once. Then it's just a matter of using my trusty 4" reflecting telescope to zoom in on any part of the screen I like. This is much more convenient than opening a single file at a time, or using a tabbed interface, it is much more efficient to just swivel the telescope and jump to the correct part of the code, and it rarely takes me more than ten or fifteen minutes to find it. And I can read the code in perfect clarity, provided I don't nudge or touch the telescope in any way, or breathe too hard. Apart from "rn" which tends to look like an "m", and its a bit hard to tell the difference between 0 and 0 or 1 I and l, or S and 5, and to be honest periods and commas are completely invisible, but that's a small price to pay for the extra efficiency of having all 641 thousand lines of code on screen all at once. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
