Re: [Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:51:41AM +0100, Rafael Knuth wrote: > > So, what to do about it? While the Python interactive interpreter is > > mighty powerful, it does have some limitations, and this is one of them. > > You just have to get used to the fact that it is not well-suited for > > editing la

Re: [Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-24 Thread Alan Gauld
On 24/11/13 07:51, Rafael Knuth wrote: So, what to do about it? While the Python interactive interpreter is mighty powerful, it does have some limitations, and this is one of them. You just have to get used to the fact that it is not well-suited for editing large blocks of code. ... Understood.

Re: [Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-23 Thread Rafael Knuth
> So, what to do about it? While the Python interactive interpreter is > mighty powerful, it does have some limitations, and this is one of them. > You just have to get used to the fact that it is not well-suited for > editing large blocks of code. It is excellent for trying out small > snippets, o

Re: [Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 07:51:59PM +0100, Rafael Knuth wrote: > > Oh, wait, I see you are using Python 3.0. Don't. Python 3.0 is not > > supported because it is buggy. You should use 3.1, or better still, 3.3. > > Python 3.3 is much better than 3.1 or 3.2, and 3.0 is buggy and slow. > > What I was

Re: [Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-23 Thread Rafael Knuth
> Oh, wait, I see you are using Python 3.0. Don't. Python 3.0 is not > supported because it is buggy. You should use 3.1, or better still, 3.3. > Python 3.3 is much better than 3.1 or 3.2, and 3.0 is buggy and slow. What I was trying to say is that sometimes I get runtime errors even if nothing's

Re: [Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Rafael Knuth wrote: > Hej there, > > I noticed that sometimes when I do lots of modifications within a > program, I get runtime errors even if the program is "clean". I > realized that first time when I copy and pasted a program into a new > window - it mi

[Tutor] Strange issue w/ Python shell 3.0.0.

2013-11-23 Thread Rafael Knuth
Hej there, I noticed that sometimes when I do lots of modifications within a program, I get runtime errors even if the program is "clean". I realized that first time when I copy and pasted a program into a new window - it miraculously ran without any problems. Although it was exactly the same prog