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Re: Import order question

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From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject Re: Import order question
Date Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:44:44 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-02-18, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Rick Johnson
><rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you telling me you're willing to search through a single
>> file containing 3,734 lines of code (yes, Tkinter) looking
>> for a method named "destroy" of a class named "OptionMenu"
>
> Yeah, actually I am.

Yup.  And there are new-fangled tools like grep and vi/emacs that even
make it easy!

> At my last job, I had a single C++ file of roughly 5K lines, and it
> wasn't at all unmanageable. Probably wouldn't have been a problem to
> have another order of magnitude on that. What sort of wimpy text
> editor are you using that you can't find what you're looking for in a
> single large file? Less steps to get to the file, more searching
> within the file. Much easier.

Definitely.  I've worked on a number C projects where the source code
was pointlessly split up into a whole slew of files.  AFAICT, it
wasn't done to provide separate namespaces or for information hiding
or code reuse. It was just done to piss me off when I'm trying to find
something...

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Re: Import order question Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-18 06:40 +1100
  Re: Import order question Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 12:41 -0800
    Re: Import order question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 08:02 +1100
      Re: Import order question Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 13:44 -0800
        Re: Import order question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 08:49 +1100
          Re: Import order question Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-18 22:44 +0000
        Re: Import order question Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-18 16:17 -0600
          Re: Import order question Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-18 22:45 +0000
          Re: Import order question Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 14:49 -0800
        Re: Import order question Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-18 23:28 +0000
          Re: Import order question Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 15:41 -0800
            Re: Import order question Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-19 01:09 +0000
            Re: Import order question Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-19 07:32 +0000
          Re: Import order question MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-02-19 00:18 +0000
        Re: Import order question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 12:57 +1100
        Re: Import order question Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-19 07:32 +0000
          Re: Import order question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 18:59 +1100
          Re: Import order question Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-19 08:28 -0500

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