Le Wed, 20 May 2009 11:38:55 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> s'exprima ainsi:
yield Message(parseTime(attr(u'received')), who, text(msg), isAction)
Mildly hard to read; I tend to skip the details of a complex call on one line, and have to go back if I need them. Eg, in review I would very like miss a typo where the 2nd and 3rd arguments are (incorrectly) swapped unless I read that line token by token. I'm much less likely to make that mistake for
yield Message(parseTime(attr(u'received')), who, text(msg), isAction)
although I grant that at 81 characters for the long line, the two-line format is distinctly uglier.
One wall I run into with lines < 80 characters is, paradoxally, that I miss width for lines I want to break (!). The issue is that, ~ in order to have logical, comprehensible, layout, ~ and to avoid messing up with python's own indent the continuation lines have to align with items on the same logical level in the first line, for instance: try: my_final_result = finalResultProducer(arg1_from_abunch_of_args, args_should_align_properly, [so, what, if, they, re, compound]) except AttributeError, error: raise ResultError( "foo ......... bar" "<--All message text lines should start here." %(String, interpolation, argument, list, as, well) ) Note that I started the try...except at a rather low level (3). Denis ------ la vita e estrany