Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
Please don't do this. On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 02:19:58PM +0000, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > >>> exit > bye! This is a user-hostile and unfriendly UI for Python. The Python REPL is not a shell like bash etc, it should be safe to evaluate any builtin object at the interactive interpreter to view its repr without side-effects. Especially not major side-effects such as exiting the interpreter with its total loss of program state. The only motivation of this change is pure laziness to avoid typing parentheses when you want to call an object. I know that the creator of Perl famously says that laziness and hubris are virtues for programmers, but I disagree. Pandering to laziness in language design is not a virtue. This does not add any new and improved functionality, or make the language better, or more friendly for beginners exploring things at the REPL. It is a useability regression, making it more hostile and unfriendly for people expecting to be able to view objects by entering them at the REPL without catastrophic side-effects, and the only benefit is to save two characters. Having said that Pablo, I don't dislike your hack to make the exit repr pretend to be a confirmation message anywhere near as much. I don't think it is necessary, I think it looks even stranger when displaying the builtin namespace dict, but at least it is not a useability regression. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44603> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
