On 25 oct, 15:34, Alex Willmer <a...@moreati.org.uk> wrote: > On Oct 25, 11:07 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > > > In "The Zen of Python", one of the "maxims" is "flat is better than > > nested"? Why? Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrates > > this point? > > I take this as a reference to the layout of the Python standard > library and other packages i.e. it's better to have a module hierarchy > of depth 1 or 2 and many top level items, than a depth of 5+ and only > a few top level items. > (snip)
This also applies to inheritance hierarchies (which tend to be rather flat in Python compared to most mainstreams OOPLs), as well as nested classes etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
