On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 8:56:31 PM UTC+12, I wrote: > It is handy to be able to keep complex expressions together sometimes, when > breaking them up would simply obscure their structure. To avoid lines > getting long, why not take advantage of the two available screen/page > dimensions to make their structure clearer? As a bonus, spacing out > parentheses makes them look less of a clutter.
Another example, from <https://github.com/ldo/qahirah>: the sequence of values is laid out to allow easy additions/modifications in future. for \ symname, funcname \ in \ ( ("FC_FONT", "ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face"), ("FT_FONT", "ft_font_face_create_for_pattern"), ("IMAGE_SURFACE", "image_surface_create"), # TODO: MIME_SURFACE, OBSERVER_SURFACE? ("PDF_SURFACE", "pdf_surface_create"), ("PNG_FUNCTIONS", "surface_write_to_png"), ("PS_SURFACE", "ps_surface_create"), ("RECORDING_SURFACE", "recording_surface_create"), ("SCRIPT_SURFACE", "script_create"), ("SVG_SURFACE", "svg_surface_create"), {"USER_FONT", "user_font_face_create"}, ) \ : setattr \ ( HAS, symname, hasattr(cairo, "cairo_" + funcname) ) #end for As a bonus, this also counts as an example of data-driven programming. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
