[Tutor] Suppressing output in interactive mode

[Alan Gauld]

"Olivier Lefevre" <lefevrol at yahoo.com> wrote

>> Then assign the return value to a variable and never use it.
> 
> That feels obfuscated; definitely not an elegant solution.
> When I'm done with interactive development and save the
> substance to a script I'd have to chase these bogus
> assignments to junk variables and remove them; not a
> smooth workflow.

Why remove them? They shouldn't hurt performance 
and you only need one re-used for each expression.

However I'm curious how you save your interactive sesssion 
to a script? I normally only write fragments at the >>> prompt 
and retype them into my script - there would be so much 
tweaking needed that its just as fast I think.
(I tend to use single letter variables etc at the >>> whereas 
real scripts will have longer names and comments and 
spacing and more error handling etc)

How are you using the prompt?

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