[Tutor] Suppressing output in interactive mode

Eric Brunson brunson at brunson.com
Fri Jan 11 20:49:48 CET 2008


Olivier Lefevre wrote:
>> Are you talking about the >>> prompt? 
>>     
>
> Yes.
>
>   
>> But if you refer to a loop when would you ever be evaluating 
>> expressions inside a loop without assigning them?
>>     
>
> Some method calls return a value that you may not be interested
> in but which will still be printed, e.g., Set.add in Java (if
> you are using jython, this is relevant).
>
>   

Then assign the return value to a variable and never use it.

I don't see the problem.




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