https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

> I agree, Python allows anyone to write bad code, but makes up for it by running the code slow enough that it can't do real damage.

In the same sentence you agree with the implied beauty of the syntax of Python and then go on sarcastically about the performance of CPython. Assumably you deliberately mixed language and implementation because you needed a soapbox, so hey, here's my comment to which you can reply and continue your rhetoric.

Now I can have side-by-side two editors plus a Structure or Project pane at the left in PyCharm while having 120 chars visible in both editors.

    import re, operator
    def count_words(filename):
        with open(filename, 'rb') as fp:
            data= memoryview(fp.read())
        word_counts= {}
        for match in re.finditer(br'\S+', data):
            word= data[match.start(): match.end()]
            try:
                word_counts[word]+= 1
            except KeyError:
                word_counts[word]= 1
        word_counts= sorted(word_counts.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
        for word, count in word_counts:
            print(word.tobytes().decode(), count)

    $ cat
    ^Z[1] + Stopped                    cat
    $ kill %1

    IFS='   ''
    '

    IFS='   ''
    '
    echo hello >/tmp/"some_unique_prefix in tmp"
    cat /tmp/some_unique_prefix*
    fn="My CV.txt"
    echo "I'm alive" >/tmp/$fn
    cat /tmp/$fn

I remember using `cat -v` before learning that `xargs` exists… or maybe before `xargs` actually existed on systems I used :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183876

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesized expression would— so I use the same spacing as `()`

2. replacing colon or just finishing the sentence with a subsentence— so the spacing goes like for a colon.

Probably unfounded grammatically and against any style guides, but this spacing makes sense to me.

Even using commas, if you leave the ambiguous “free” I suggest you prefix “objects” with “the” or “any”.