How useful do you find the interactive interpreter?
Tom Good
Tom_Good1 at excite.com
Mon Jun 25 17:58:58 EDT 2001
slaytanic_killer at disinfo.net (slaytanic killer) wrote in message news:<4688f24b.0106231658.43d2c446 at posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> I am looking at Python seriously, and I can see that the interpreter
> would be really good for testing out ideas. Getting small things to
> work and then switching over to a text editor to generalize what I've
> learned. Is this how people generally use it? Or is it an even
> deeper part of coding?
>
> Thanks.
I use it all the time for developing ideas and for interactive testing
of objects.
I do interactive testing/experimenting a lot from the interactive
shell, like this:
import foo
foo.someFunction(improvisedTestData)
[see that it didn't do what I expected, go edit foo.py]
reload(foo)
foo.someFunction(improvisedTestData)
[now it works]
Only trouble is, then when I switch back to Java or C++, I tend to
edit my code, *forget* to recompile it, then run it and wonder why
nothing changed :-)
Tom
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