On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: >>> Naturally, I understand that adding a new name is a big deal and may be too >>> much to ask for beginners. >> >> This is where you might want to consider putting some imports into >> site.py. That way, you can set up your own customized Python, without >> waiting for changes to be approved for core (which they probably won't >> - new builtins have a high requirement for necessity, not just "I >> don't want to have to type import"). > > Teaching a beginner a new programming language, but pretending it's > Python, doesn't sound like a fantastic idea.
It would still be Python, you just teach that certain lines just always go at the top of your scripts (like "from __future__ import print_function" if you're on Py2). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
