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[Liam Clarke]

How about everyone uses 

www.rafb.net/paste for long bits of code?

I know I do, as it colours functions, classes differently, etc, and it
respects tabs.

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:41:30 +0000, Adam Cripps <kabads at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:38:54 +0000, Adam Cripps <kabads at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:14:28 -0500, Brian van den Broek
> > <bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> > Kevin said unto the world upon 2005-03-04 10:43:
> > > Hello all. I have just completed my very first python program just a
> > > simple number guessing. I would like for someone to try it out if they
> > > could and let me know how I did with it and where I could have
> > > improved apon it. There are t files main.py and defs.py
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > Though I am a learner, too, I have a few comments. They are more about
> > style than substance.
> >
> > 1) A lot of your code comments get in the way of my reading and easily
> > understanding the code. Consider:
> >
> > .# leading `.'s to foil google groups and other whitespace stripping
> > readers
> > .if play == '3': #If user picks 3
> > .    print "\nHave a nice day!\n" #Tell them to have a nice day
> > .        sys.exit() #Then exit the entire thing
> >
> > I think this would be much easier to read if it were like:
> >
> > .if play == '3':                        # If user picks 3
> > .    print "\nHave a nice day!\n"       # Tell them to have a nice day
> > .        sys.exit()                     # Then exit the entire thing
> >
> > (Note that some people hate the comments along the side and would
> > prefer them the precede the line(s) they comment on. I like the 2
> > column approach, but that's just one duffer's view.)
> >
> > But, even better would be:
> >
> > .if play == '3':
> > .    print "\nHave a nice day!\n"
> > .        sys.exit()
> >
> <snip>
> 
> Is the tutor list mirrored on usenet such as google groups? I've
> searched and not found it. I think it's a bit harsh to blame the style
> on a client that strips white-space, where he has no control over it.
> Are we not better off using another client?
> 
> I use gmail [1] to collect this kind of email and using the recent thread
> entitle "Reading Tutor with gmail: monospace fonts" have managed to
> make my mail monospace, which makes it a lot easier to read.  None of
> the whitespace was stripped in my mail, and the style looked fine. In
> fact, by littering it with '.' you are making it more of a task to run
> this script, as you have to strip all the '.' out first - a real pain.
> 
> Adam
> 
> [1] Although gmail is far from perfect.
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