On Feb 17, 11:44 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > placid wrote: > > if i want to treat every cmdloop prompt entry as a potential > > command then i need to overwrite the default() method ? > > Excuse me, what's a cmdloop prompt? What's the "default() method"? > > > What i want to achieve is to be able to support global variable > > creation for example; > > > res = sum 1 2 > > > this would create a variable res with the result of the method > > do_sum() ? > > > then would i be able to run; > > > sum a 5 > > > this would return 8 or an error saying that res is not defined > > Are you sure you're talking about Python here?
Yes, he is talking about the cmd module: http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/Cmd-objects.html. However that module was never intended as a real interpreter, so defining variables as the OP wants would require some work. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list