[Tutor] Data persistence problem

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 22/06/13 11:10, Jim Mooney wrote:

> The ultimate in laziness would be to get the program to
> append to itself so I,don't have to cut and paste from the
> interpreter, but I'm running into some tacky problems. Although some
> of them are from the IDE. But others might be from the OS, and there
> are different OSes so this wouldn't be portable.


Sounds to me like you are experimenting with "Do What I Mean" software. Here's a cautionary tale about DWIM:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html



-- 
Steven