On 10/25/2016 5:13 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
The natural unit of interaction at the command line is the single line. To the extent that (for example) fixing a mistake in a multi-line construct at the command line is a real pain.
Try IDLE. The unit of interaction is the statement. One writes, edits, and submits entire statements. PREV recalls the previous statement as a whole and one edits the entire statement before resubmitting. For me, for Python, statements are the natural unit of interaction.
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