Learning Python

[Xavier Morel]

Byte wrote:
> Assumption. Im also new to programing, so could do something stupid
> like think a Windows path is a command/input/etc. (really, ive done
> things like that before.)
> 
Don't assume anything when you have no reason to, and especially don't 
assume that a cross-platform programming language behaves differently 
from a platform to another, especially on built-in basic functions

> Now, im running this on a terminal, but am acctually writing my scripts
> in a text editor. How can I get a script to do a sum with the editor?
> e.g. it asks for a sum, then does it etc.
> 
parse the expression, extract the operands and the operation, apply the 
operation to the operands (are you trying to code a calculator?)