On 10/26/2014 11:24 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, October 27, 2014 8:40:48 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
You can get block-by-block history by using Idle. I find that fairly
convenient for manipulating class/function definitions.
ChrisA
Umm... Nice!
A bit inconsistent in that the '...' does not appear.
But thats good; makes copy|cut-pasting from interpreter to file
a mostly trivial operation.
One of the differences between console interpreter and Idle Shell is
that the former is line oriented whereas Shell is statement oriented.
In the console interpreter, you cannot edit a line after it is entered.
In Shell, you can edit any line until you enter an entire statment.
Similarly, c. i. history recalls a line at a time. Recalling an
multiline statment has to be done a line at a time, in order. Shell
history recalls an entire statement, even if multiple lines (this is
what Chris means by 'blocks'). Explaining this difference as the reason
for no ... is on my todo list.
It's inconsistent only because the default sys.ps2 is those dots,
which aren't necessary in Idle. You could make it consistent by simply
changing sys.ps2.
Nope. User code is executed in the user process. Its only effect on
the Idle process is to write to stdout or stderr for display. There is
tracker issue about letting users change sys.ps1 *in the Idle
process*, but it would have to be through the menu or config dialog.
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