[Python-ideas] Yielding from the command line

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Sep 12 20:01:40 CEST 2014


So certainly the two-line helper function should be in the docs, as it
works across all those different REPLs.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 09:20:43AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > Anyway, don't most people use IPython these days?
>
> Not so far as I can see from the questions asked on the tutor and
> python-list mailing lists. Windows users seem to mostly use IDLE,
> Linux users the vanilla Python interactive interpreter, and when a Mac
> user asks a question I normally faint from the shock and don't notice
> what they're using :-)
>
> According to a recent thread on Reddit, all the cool kids are using
> PyCharm, which (I think) has its own REPL.
>
> I have no doubt that there are IPython users, probably mostly in the
> scientific community, but if they ask questions on the two mailing lists
> above, they're not often copying and pasting IPython sessions into their
> posts.
>
>
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