About one class/function per module

[rustom]

On Nov 2, 3:11 am, Peng Yu <pengyu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently asked how to support one class/function per module under
> the title 'How to import only one module in a package when the package
> __init__.py has already imports the modules?' I summarize my key
> points below. In particular, I have to two questions:
> 1. What disadvantages there are to enforce one class/function per file?
> 2. How to better support one class/function per file in python?

Others have told you to discard your biases.
I would tell you to suspend them for a while (including our biases
against your biases)
and try to use emacs+ecb

>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I prefer organized my code one class/function per file (i.e per module
> in python). I know the majority of programmers don't use this
> approach. Therefore, I'm wondering what its disadvantage is.
>
> The advantages of one-function/class-per-file that I am aware of are
> the following items (maybe incomplete).
>   1. It is easy to see what functions and classes there are just by
> browsing the source directory, without the need of opening the file by
> an editor.

Primary intention of ecb

>   2. Testing code for a function/class can be organized along with the
> module for the function/class, which also makes it easier to keep
> track of the testing code for any function/class.
>   3. It is easy to move a function/class from one package to another
> by just moving files around.
If an editing task is found hard it just means youve never used emacs!

>   4. It is easy change variable names, etc., for a function/class by
> replacement in a file without worrying accidentally change variable
> names in other functions.
> I have used the above approach on a C++ project. And I use vim + ctags
> to navigate from a reference of a class/funciton to its definition. So
> far it works fine.
Should be possible to code this up in about 10 lines of emacs
Simple workaround is to select the function/class and run search-
replace on the selection