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Re: Error Testing

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Date 2013-10-20 09:20 +1100
Subject Re: Error Testing
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1270.1382221243.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 10/19/2013 2:08 PM, David Robinow wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You can try all these out in the interactive interpreter (you probably
>>> have IDLE installed, which on Windows is rather nicer to work with
>>> than the default interactive mode).
>>
>>   IDLE is cross-platform.  Could you explain why you say "on Windows"?
>
>
> The command line console on *nix is apparently less obnoxious that the one
> on Windows. So for people who use an editor other than the Idle editor,
> there is less reason to use just the Idle shell.

Less obnoxious, more friendly, and way WAY more powerful. As I said in
the other thread, multi-line recall is its biggest lack, but for the
rest, it's quite usable. On Windows, not so much. (Mind you, I'm
accustomed to readline, so if you don't have it, you'll feel more
strongly about Idle.)

ChrisA

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Error Testing Scott Novinger <scnovinger@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 05:23 -0700
  Re: Error Testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-19 13:37 +0100
    Re: Error Testing Scott Novinger <scnovinger@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 06:34 -0700
      Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 00:42 +1100
      Re: Error Testing rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 09:22 -0700
        Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 09:28 +1100
        Re: Error Testing Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-10-19 15:46 -0700
        Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 10:02 +1100
        Re: Error Testing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-20 12:18 -0400
  Re: Error Testing Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-19 08:44 -0400
    Re: Error Testing Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 08:57 -0400
      Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 00:04 +1100
      Re: Error Testing Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-19 09:07 -0400
        Re: Error Testing Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-19 09:09 -0400
      Re: Error Testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-19 14:19 +0100
  Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 00:01 +1100
  Re: Error Testing David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 14:08 -0400
  Re: Error Testing Tim Chase <tim@thechases.com> - 2013-10-19 13:31 -0500
  Re: Error Testing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-19 15:50 -0400
  What's wrong with Windows Command Prompt (was Re: Error Testing) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-19 16:35 -0400
  Re: What's wrong with Windows Command Prompt (was Re: Error Testing) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 09:15 +1100
  Re: Error Testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 09:20 +1100
  Re: What's wrong with Windows Command Prompt (was Re: Error Testing) David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 15:55 -0400
  Re: What's wrong with Windows Command Prompt (was Re: Error Testing) Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-21 15:29 -0500

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