How useful do you find the interactive interpreter?

[Emile van Sebille]

I generally work in a text editor, keeping an interpreter session available
mainly for introspection purposes.  Mostly I import modules and then dir or
pydoc them.  I rarely just try things first in the interpreter, as it tends
to slow me down if I get anything more then just a couple of lines of code.
I do keep *lots* of throwaway test.py files, and always have a couple of
those open in my text editor.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"slaytanic killer" <slaytanic_killer at disinfo.net> wrote in message
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> 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.