A quick c.l.p netiquette question

[Peter Hansen]

Peter Corbett wrote:
> I've written a program to illustrate a few... syntactic issues with
> Python. It's 158 <80 character lines long.
> 
> About how short should a program be to be postable to this newsgroup -
> in other words, at what length should you stick it on a web page and
> post a link?

Does it really have to be 158 lines to demonstrate these few issues?  I 
for one almost never take the time to dig through 158 lines of someone 
else's code, partly on the assumption that almost any interesting issue 
can be covered (using Python, specifically) in about a dozen lines of 
code.  YMMV

-Peter