On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > As for line numbers, for working alone, I don't see much point. But for > any kind of interaction with other people, it's essential. It's just SO > much easier to say, "line 417" as opposed to "OK, scroll up a couple > more lines, no, no, not that far, go down a little. There! See that > print statement, now go down three lines below that, ..." By the time > the two of you are on the same page about which line of code you're > talking about, you will have forgotten what you wanted to say.
Ctrl-G in many editors will let you GOTO (sorry, I'll try to keep this PG-13) a specific line by number. Extremely handy, especially when you're debugging across computers - the error message comes up on your test computer and cites the line number, and you jump to it on your dev easily. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
