Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-08-02 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 1 août 2013 02:50:13 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : > ... > rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far as > > I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.) ... Very interesting aspect in LibreOffice. As the "center of gravity of the development" has move

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-08-01 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-08-01, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for ex

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- >>> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of >>> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your a

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Has anyone tried Pyspread? I have not. I have a fundamental problem with spreadsheets, the extremely narrow view of the workspace. There was a piece on NPR the other day about some errors in some modeling applications. I missed most of it (does someone have a link? I'm on my phone right now), b

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Wanderer
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:39:29 PM UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- > > > doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of > > > data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). > > > >

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a >> spreadsheet. > > Many years ago, I worked with somebody who used a spreadsheet like > that. I really love Emacs, however... One of the traders here where I work (who shall not be named) had a space-delimited data file with hun

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Rhodri James
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:29 +0100, Skip Montanaro wrote: I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). My guess is it would be more foo

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-07-31, Rhodri James wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:29 +0100, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >>> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- >>> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of >>> data (for example when I want to add instructions to yo

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- >> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of >> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). > > My guess is it would be more foolproof to edi

Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

2013-07-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- > doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of > data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a spreadsheet. Skip -- h