On 01/20/10 22:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > then i might go a bit further to examine some of *those* objects. i > admit it might seem a bit dry, but i think it would be handy to have a > handle on what a clean shell session looks like before starting to > import things, then seeing how that importing changes the session > before getting down to actual programming.
I would recommend to teach these introspection capabilities *after* some basic programming. If you tell them these dir(), globals(), __name__, etc before even getting into basic python, your precious newbies would sit there thinking "what the hell is he talking about?" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
