On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:30 PM, CM <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > In sum: experimentation is for when you don't know what you're doing and > there is no manual; but, after the initial learning time, you *should* know > what you're doing and you should have the manual handy, and therefore the > time for experimentation is largely over.
Yet with fast turnaround interactive languages, the interpreter IS part of the manual. Keeping IDLE (I prefer it to command-line Python on Windows, as the latter lacks GNU readline ergo no tab completion etc) handy is at least as useful as keeping the manual up. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
