Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1375297355 18669 64.122.56.22 (31 Jul 2013 19:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:02:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51692 On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file -- >> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of >> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler). > > My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a > spreadsheet. Many years ago, I worked with somebody who used a spreadsheet like that. I tried it and found it to be way too cumbersome. The overhead involved of putting tables in to slew of different files and starting up LibreOffice to edit/view them is huge compared to just editing them with emacs in a file along with the source code. Maybe my computer is too old/slow. Maybe it's just due to how bad I am at Excel/LibreOffice... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I haven't been married at in over six years, but we gmail.com had sexual counseling every day from Oral Roberts!!