[Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

[Karen Palen]

Yes I see.

Based on other feedback I am leaning towards not using any IDE for the moment.

Python seems well adapted to that kind of workflow, as well as an impressive portability - every bit as good a Java from my tests so far.

Karen 

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE
> To: tutor at python.org
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:20 AM
> Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> > So the problem is that the stdout of the "ls" command
> is appearing in
> > some location that you cannot see.
> > As for ways to remedy this - I don't know.  The
> idea here, though, is
> > that even though the regular Python version has the
> side-effect that it
> > outputs it in the console, that's not necessarily what
> you want it to
> > do.  The reason is that you have no way to access
> that data.
> 
> You have to explicitly redirect the stdout from subprocess
> 
> subprocess.Popen(['ls'], stdout=...)
> 
> What you're seeing is a side effect of the nature of the
> interactive
> console and IDLE. The defined behavior of python is when it
> is being run
> from a script.
> 
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