On 2013-07-31, Marcelo MD <lists...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In my experience, aligning columns in large tables reduces >> maintence cost by making it much easier/faster to see what >> you've got and by providing a way to visually "prompt" you for >> the correct value in the correct place when you add new lines. > > Works great until one of the values changes in size. Say: > bla = ( > ....1.0, 1.1, 1.2, > ....2.0, 2.1, 2.2, > ....3.0, 2.1, 3.2, > ) > > And one day you have to change '2.1' to '2.09999': > bla = ( > ....1.0, 1.1, 1.2, > ....2.0, 2.09999, 2.2, > ....3.0, 2.1, 3.2, > ) > > If this happens more than once ( or twice, because I'm patient =)), > maintaining the alignment becomes a chore. So I only align columns if I'm > typing a table I know won't change.
Yes, that was my exprience, too. Besides, after studying The Pragmatic Programmer I removed nearly all the tables from my code and reference them (usually with csv module) instead. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
