Humor: The Evolution of a Programmer

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, at 3:19pm, sconce at in-spec-inc.com wrote:
> Seriously, earlier posts were correct.  When Python evaluates
> an expression at the interactive prompt ...

  Ah.  All the other "examples" in the OP were intended to be run as files,
so I did the same thing to your snippet.  It never occurred to me to feed it
to Python interactively (most likely because I don't know Python).

> As you develop a program you do a lot of that kind of inspection - it's
> only a savings of typing "print" each time, but it adds up. A typically
> "Pythonic" streamlining.

  Perl's debugger has a similar feature, except you do need a single-letter
command ('x') before the expression to evaluate.  A typically Perlish
streamlining: Abbreviated, inconsistent, and cryptic.  ;-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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