Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > I don't need to see 23 printed, because I already know what the value is, so > that takes two lines where one would do. (On the rare case I did want to > see the value of something I had just assigned to, I could just print the > expression.)
Of course, you could just as well say that you _never_ need to see anything printed unless you ask for it. The first time I used the REPL I was irritated by the fact that None wasn't printed. The reason that None isn't printed is, of course, because Python has no distinction between a function that returns None as a value and a function that doesn't return a value. The alternative is to make assignments special within the REPL, or even turn it into something that looks less like a REPL and more like the variable/expression list that some IDE debuggers have. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
