Style suggestions/critiques

[Aldwin Pollefeyt]

The Zen of Python is readability? Does this look neater?

x11, y11, x12, y12, x21, y21, x22, y22 = line1[0] + line1[1] + line2[0] +
line2[1]

Compared to tuples, lists are maybe more useful if you need to manipulate
the coordinates.

line1 = [ [1, 2], [3, 4] ]
line1[1][0] = 5
line1[0] = [2, 3]

or

_p1, _p2, _x, _y = 0, 1, 0, 1
line1 = [ [1, 2], [3, 4] ]
line1[_p2][_x] = 5
line1[_p1] = [2, 3]







On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 5:15 AM Michael F. Stemper <
michael.stemper at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently wrote a couple of modules (more to come) to help me
> use the tikz package in TeX/LaTeX. Since it's all to do with
> drawing, I have a lot of points in R^2. Being unimaginative, I
> implemented them as ordered pairs (2-tuples) of floats. E.g.:
>
> p1 = 3,4
> p2 = 5,6
>
> Naturally, lines are implemented as ordered pairs[1] of points:
>
> line = p1,p2
>
> This all seems reasonably simple and intuitive (to me). However,
> in order to actually do some manipulation, I have stuff like:
>
> # Unpack the lines
> l1p1,l1p2 = line1
> l1x1,l1y1 = l1p1
> l1x2,l1y2 = l1p2
> l2p1,l2p2 = line2
> l2x1,l2y1 = l2p1
> l2x2,l2y2 = l2p2
>
> spattered all over. Although this is simple enough, I find it
> aesthetically unappealing.
>
> Is there some better idiom that I should be using, or is this
> really in accord with The Zen of Python?
>
> [1] (I could have done sets, I suppose, but orientation might be
> useful at some point.)
>
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