On 05/01/10 07:54, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>> You'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're working with text >>>> wrapping in your editor. >>> >>> In the other hand, you'd put a 5K line in your source code, + you're >>> writing, debugging, and running a script to wrap and put various escapes >>> for quotes and newlines, + you need to figure out how to force that >>> script to accept your 5k string. >> >> + now your chunk is in obfuscated form with various quote noise, >> unnecessary escape characters and the like. > > Personally, for Python I'd put such text in a separate text file, as I > recommended first of all in the posting you've reacted so negatively to.
Didn't we all already agree that we wouldn't put large chunk of text directly in source code unless we're too lazy to create a separate file for a one-off scripts. But your suggested alternative[i.e. quoting everything, uglily] to the proper way[i.e. creating separate file] is so distasteful to make it looks like the only clean way of inserting chunk of text is to create separate file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
