Re: Humor: The Evolution of a Programmer

[Erik Price]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 08:15  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, at 10:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Python hacker

'Hello, world.'

  Transcript of my shell session:

	$ cat > hw.py
	'Hello, world.'
	^D
	$ python hw.py
	$

  What did I do wrong?

A literal string in a Python program doesn't do anything, just like with most languages. I think that the OP was referring to the Python interactive prompt, wherein a name by itself is evaluated (and a literal string evaluates to a literal string). Here is an example:

wintermute:~$ python
Python 2.2 (#1, 07/14/02, 23:25:09)
[GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 'hello world' # string literal all by itself
'hello world' # evaluated
>>> hw = 'hello world'
>>> hw # variable name all by itself
'hello world' # evaluated
>>>

But you're right, the simple presence of either a literal string or a name won't do anything in an executed python script unless you feed it to print() or something.



Erik





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