I recently wrote a couple of modules (more to come) to help me use the tikz package in TeX/LaTeX. Since it's all to do with drawing, I have a lot of points in R^2. Being unimaginative, I implemented them as ordered pairs (2-tuples) of floats. E.g.:
p1 = 3,4 p2 = 5,6 Naturally, lines are implemented as ordered pairs[1] of points: line = p1,p2 This all seems reasonably simple and intuitive (to me). However, in order to actually do some manipulation, I have stuff like: # Unpack the lines l1p1,l1p2 = line1 l1x1,l1y1 = l1p1 l1x2,l1y2 = l1p2 l2p1,l2p2 = line2 l2x1,l2y1 = l2p1 l2x2,l2y2 = l2p2 spattered all over. Although this is simple enough, I find it aesthetically unappealing. Is there some better idiom that I should be using, or is this really in accord with The Zen of Python? [1] (I could have done sets, I suppose, but orientation might be useful at some point.) -- Michael F. Stemper The FAQ for rec.arts.sf.written is at: http://leepers.us/evelyn/faqs/sf-written Please read it before posting. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
