Arild B. Næss wrote: > Den 8. des. 2006 kl. 14.05 skrev Kent Johnson: >> Why do you need to pickle the function? Is it created dynamically? >> Can you just pickle the data? >> >> Kent >> > > Thanks. > > I guess it's not absolutely necessary to pickle the function. I tried > to do this because I wanted to use the function in the interpreter > without having to write it in there line by line. > > I'm used to working in R and Matlab, where you often run scripts from > the active interpreter. In that way you can actually examine the > data a script generates, instead of having the script print it to > screen or file. > > I'm having trouble getting used to python like this because I get > trouble trying to paste in several lines at once from emacs, and I > haven't found a way to run scripts in the interpreter.
Two suggestions: - Use an editor / IDE that allows you to run Python scripts. IDLE will do this. I think emacs has good support for Python too but someone who uses emacs will have to help you with that one. - Save your function in a module and import the module from the interpreter. Then you can run the function in the interpreter. For example if you have funcs.py in the working directory and it contains a function def doItAll(): pass then in the interpreter you can type >>> import funcs >>> funcs.doItAll() to run the function. If you change the function in an external editor you have to reload it in the interpreter to get the revised version: >>> reload(funcs) Kent PS Please reply to the list, not to me directly. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
