Re: [Tutor] Critiquing My Program

[Wayne Watson]

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Unfortunately, I need to stick to 2.4 or possibly 2.5 for awhile. I posted the code. That's a clever link. It appears it's an easy way to put something on the web that might be sharable with others. This is text, but images would be good. I find it useful to post images of something I'm trying to fix, and an easy visual image can help a lot. However the post works, it's under my name. Kent Johnson wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps at the top of my list is the use of self. I sure get tired of using it. Maybe there's a short cut. No, no short cut. You can use a different name than 'self', for example 's', but I don't recommend it; 'self' is pretty universal in Python. It's possible you are over-using attributes; values which are only used in a single method don't have to be attributes. Although I've organized the file data into records, I still find subscripting fields and data a bit unpleasing. For example, I used a list of tuples, but I'd list to represent items by names rather than indicies to enhance readability. Python 2.6 adds a namedtuple function which is useful for this: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple For older versions the Bunch class is handy: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308/ If anyone wants to critique what I have, just ask for a copy. You could post it to http://pastebin.com/ Kent -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) "Things are going to get a lot worse befoe they get worse." -- Lily Tomlin Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

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