I am out of trial and error again Lists
Seymore4Head
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Fri Oct 24 20:42:30 EDT 2014
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:27:03 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
wrote:
>On 10/24/2014 6:27 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
>
>> I promise I am not trying to frustrate anyone. I know I have.
>
>Seymore, if you want to learn real Python, download and install 3.4.2
>and either use the Idle Shell and Editor or the interactive console
>interpreter and a decent programmer editor.
>
>I cannot recommend CodeSkulptor to anyone. The opening statement
># CodeSkulptor runs Python programs
>is deceptive. CodeSkulptor Python is not Python. It does not correspond
>to any x.y version of Python. It is a somewhat crippled subset of
>ancient Python (2.1) with selected additions of later features. It does
>not have exceptions, raise, and try: except:. These are an essential
>part of original Python and Python today It does not have complex
>(maybe introduced in 1.5) and unicode (introduced in 2.0). Let that
>pass. More important, it does not have new-style classes, an essential
>new feature introduced in 2.2. Python beginners should start with
>unified new-styled classes. If lucky, they need never learn about the
>original old style, dis-unified type versus class system that started
>going away in 2.2, is mostly gone in 2.7. and completely gone in 3.0.
>
>If you really want to continue with CodeSkulpter Python, you should find
>a CodeSkulpterPython list. You cannot expect people here to know that
>legal code like
> class I(int): pass
>will not run, but will fail with an exceeding cryptic message:
> Line 1: undefined: TypeError: a.$d is undefined
>Nor can you expect us to know all the other limitations.
>
>This is a list for Python. If you want help here, get and use a real
>Python interpreter, with a proper interactive mode, as multiple people
>have suggested.
OK. I will.
Thanks
But the difference between Python 2 and Codeskulptor was not an issue
with this question.
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