[Tutor] confusion about imports
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 10 15:35:57 CEST 2012
On 10/07/2012 03:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 09/07/2012 16:56, Chris Hare wrote:
>>>
>>> So, I have to admit, imports have me really confused. I am trying to
>>> break apart a 10,000+ line single file into various files
>>
>> Please don't break the file up for the sake of doing it, you're
>> writing python not java :-)
>
> Agreed, but 10,000 lines is a pretty good reason for breaking up a file.
Fair comment I should have said this originally.
>
> The largest single module in the Python standard library is decimal.py,
> and that's only 6250 lines. With 18 classes and 20 top-level functions,
> to my mind, that's about the limit of maintainability for a single file.
>
>
Thanks for answering the question that I was about to ask :) Agreed
about the limit.
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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