useful tool for c.l.p

[Terry Reedy]

"Behrang Dadsetan" <ben at dadsetan.com> wrote in message
news:bgf3p5$2as$1 at online.de...
> I just read through a few posts and something striked me.
>
> Many people, just like myself, are too lazy to test the python code
they
> post here. Most of the time, of course, the code either runs well or
the
> person asking at least understands what is meant and can fix
eventual bugs.

Careful people, like myself, have learned, often through embarrassing
experience, to either note <untested> or test, cut, and paste.  I
recommend this to everyone for anything much beyond the truely
obvious.

> Would it not be wonderful to have some kind of integrated python
> interpreter within the news agent/email program, so one could kinda
> select the concerned code (or better, it is automaticly spotted)
and
> just let it run within the mail? :)

I usually find it easy enough to start up the interpreter and cut and
paste from the draft post.  It is a feature of Python that one can do
so so easily.

Terry J. Reedy