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[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-07-31, Marcelo MD <lists.md at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In my experience, aligning columns in large tables reduces
>> maintence cost by making it much easier/faster to see what
>> you've got and by providing a way to visually "prompt" you for
>> the correct value in the correct place when you add new lines.
>
> Works great until one of the values changes in size. Say:
> bla = (
> ....1.0, 1.1, 1.2,
> ....2.0, 2.1, 2.2,
> ....3.0, 2.1, 3.2,
> )
>
> And one day you have to change '2.1' to '2.09999':
> bla = (
> ....1.0, 1.1, 1.2,
> ....2.0, 2.09999, 2.2,
> ....3.0, 2.1, 3.2,
> )
>
> If this happens more than once ( or twice, because I'm patient =)),
> maintaining the alignment becomes a chore. So I only align columns if I'm
> typing a table I know won't change.

Yes, that was my exprience, too.

Besides, after studying The Pragmatic Programmer I removed nearly
all the tables from my code and reference them (usually with csv
module) instead.

-- 
Neil Cerutti