I like the form, no matter what its limitations may be. Three notes: It might be a good way to catch newbi mistakes (those are the kind I make :P, thereby providing a feedback loop to improved error messages.
I had no trouble with from math import * followed by print pi, but there was no >>> prompt after the result appeared .. is that part of the 'closures' thing mentioned earlier? Then I followed you "type 'help'" suggestion, which had me in stitches (sorry, it's been a long day and the Knob Creek was kicking in) -- I got exactly the message you'd expect, about help not being recognized and maybe help() would work. That's what triggered the idea for trapping errors. Nice work! George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
