Ed Hotchkiss wrote: > I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding > the interpreter. what is that? who uses that!? Why are most examples > like that, rather than executed as .py files?
I think showing examples at the Python interpreter prompt is *very* helpful and IMHO a preferred method in plenty of cases. If I'm showing someone a piece of code that returns some object the type of which you're not really that familiar with, would you rather be running it in a script, or on a command prompt (or, my preference is to either copy and paste the example to a script an run it with ``python -i`` or paste it to an edit in IPython)? With IPython (or vanilla Python interpreter with parse-and-bind tab completion turned on), you can inspect the object quite easily. Again, IMHO, much easier than from a script. > > Another problem that I have (which does get annoying after awhile), is > not using foo and bar. Spam and Eggs sucks. It's not funny, although > Monty Python does rock. Why not use silly+walks instead. Eh. Life's too short for me to get up in a roar about such as this. And Python's too good of a language for me to be overly bothered by example naming conventions. YMMV. > > ***/me puts on Monty Python and turns the computer off*** > > -edward -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
