On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 01:35:06 -0600, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I forgot the main point I wanted to raise here. With variables > wrapped, and each subsequent line indented, it makes it harder for the > eye to see what lines are wrapped and what lines are part of an > expanded variable. You get stuff like (I hope my indentation survives > this email): > > myvariable: [1, > 2, 3, 4, 'a s > tring'] > 0: 1 > 1: 2 > 2: 3 > 3: 4 > 4: 'a strin > g' > > (here, I made the column width 16 to make ie easier to type). > > I suggest replacing the first of the two spaces in front of the first > line in an internal variable with another character. The best I can > think of is +. So it would look like: > > myvariable: [1, > 2, 3, 4, 'a s > tring'] > + 0: 1 > + 1: 2 > + 2: 3 > + 3: 4 > + 4: 'a strin > g' > > Deeply nested items would look like: > > alist: [1, [2, 3]] > + 0: 1 > + 1: [2, 3] > + + 0: 2 > + + 1: 3 > > This would be a trivial change to make, but I just want to know if you > are OK with it first.
I'm ok with the plusses, but I'd only show at most one per line. (As in, don't use plusses in front of nested lines.) Andreas
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