On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:27:03 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
>On 10/24/2014 6:27 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: > >> I promise I am not trying to frustrate anyone. I know I have. > >Seymore, if you want to learn real Python, download and install 3.4.2 >and either use the Idle Shell and Editor or the interactive console >interpreter and a decent programmer editor. > >I cannot recommend CodeSkulptor to anyone. The opening statement ># CodeSkulptor runs Python programs >is deceptive. CodeSkulptor Python is not Python. It does not correspond >to any x.y version of Python. It is a somewhat crippled subset of >ancient Python (2.1) with selected additions of later features. It does >not have exceptions, raise, and try: except:. These are an essential >part of original Python and Python today It does not have complex >(maybe introduced in 1.5) and unicode (introduced in 2.0). Let that >pass. More important, it does not have new-style classes, an essential >new feature introduced in 2.2. Python beginners should start with >unified new-styled classes. If lucky, they need never learn about the >original old style, dis-unified type versus class system that started >going away in 2.2, is mostly gone in 2.7. and completely gone in 3.0. > >If you really want to continue with CodeSkulpter Python, you should find >a CodeSkulpterPython list. You cannot expect people here to know that >legal code like > class I(int): pass >will not run, but will fail with an exceeding cryptic message: > Line 1: undefined: TypeError: a.$d is undefined >Nor can you expect us to know all the other limitations. > >This is a list for Python. If you want help here, get and use a real >Python interpreter, with a proper interactive mode, as multiple people >have suggested. OK. I will. Thanks But the difference between Python 2 and Codeskulptor was not an issue with this question. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list