Paul Rubin>It's at least pretty good. It's not ideal, but nothing
ever is.<
I agree. At the moment Python is among the best languages for that,
but it's not perfect for that purpose. I think newbies may need a bit
more structured language, where you have to put things in a certain
order to have a
"Roy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| There is a fundamental disharmony in how functions and other objects are
| treated in Python.
[snip]
For scalars and collections, print object prints the value, which is the
main part of the object, in a form close to (or
