On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > >> In this instance, I believe the OP was paragraphing his text. > > What is “paragraphing”?
If you look at the original code, you'll see embedded newlines used to create multiple paragraphs. Hence, paragraphing as opposed to simply wrapping in order to keep his source lines <80 chars. >> My personal inclination would be to simply back-tab it. It looks ugly, >> but at least it works, and doesn't require a run-time re-parse. > > Readability counts. Why is “doesn't require a run-time re-parse” more > valuable than readability? Readability definitely counts. But having a string literal require an extra call to make it what you want also costs readability. It's like pushing your literals off to an i18n file - what you gain in flexibility, you lose in simplicity. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
