Interactive vs IDLE

[Justin Sheehy]

"Daniel Klein" <DanielK at aracnet.com> writes:

> Just curious, with the advent of IDLE, is there any reason whatsoever to use
> the 'interactive' mode anymore?

Sure.  Without it, what would an emacs Python-mode use to evaluate code?

Also, I use python as a basic calculator when I want to do a bit of
simple math.  In those cases, I don't necessarily want to start up
anything extra, or anything graphic.

-Justin