Re: Friday Finking: 'main-lines' are best kept short

2019-09-13 Thread boB Stepp
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:59 PM DL Neil via Python-list wrote: > Ref: > Mastering Object-oriented Python, S Lott > Copyright © 2014 Packt Publishing Side note: When I looked this up I saw on Amazon that there is a second edition out targeting Python 3.7. It was published June of this year.

Re: Friday Finking: 'main-lines' are best kept short

2019-09-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Sep2019 15:58, DL Neil wrote: Is it a good idea to keep a system's main-line* code as short as possible, essentially consigning all of 'the action' to application and external packages and modules? Generally yes. * my choice of term: "main-line", may be taken to mean: - the contents

Friday Finking: 'main-lines' are best kept short

2019-09-12 Thread DL Neil via Python-list
(this follows some feedback from the recent thread: "WedWonder: Scripts and Modules" and commences a somewhat-related topic/invitation to debate/correct/educate) Is it a good idea to keep a system's main-line* code as short as possible, essentially consigning all of 'the action' to