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Re: Practice question

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Date 2014-10-07 03:52 +1100
Subject Re: Practice question
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.14648.1412614332.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider the sequence:
>
> 1. Drives on the wrong side of the road
> 2. Has no clue that there's such a concept as 'wrong side of road'
> 3. Teaches people to drive without conveying anything about 'wrong side of road'
>
> Hopefully you will agree that 1 < 2 < 3??
>
> My gripe is with 3

No, I don't agree. Teaching people to drive is separate from teaching
road rules, which vary by legislature. I can draw the exact same
analogy:

1. Fails to follow proper protocol at a hook turn intersection
2. Has no clue that there's such a concept as a hook turn
3. Teaches people to drive without conveying anything about hook turns.

Most of you are probably in state 2, and your instructors were
probably in state 3. Neither's a problem, because hook turns don't
matter until you come to an intersection where they're used. (And even
then, there's often signage.)

The complaints you're making are about something that does not matter.
There are multiple usage patterns for Python; one is to eschew the
interactive interpreter and run everything from scripts. That's fine,
there's nothing wrong with it. And then, the nuances of interactive
Python are completely insignificant.

I don't see that your complaints about print and interactive mode have
anything at all to do with this thread.

ChrisA

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  Re: Practice question Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-10-05 18:33 -0500
    Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-05 19:47 -0700
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        Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-06 09:23 -0700
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            Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-06 10:05 -0700
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              Re: Practice question Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-06 20:49 +0000
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                Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 09:14 -0700
                Re: Practice question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-09 03:23 +1100
                Re: Practice question Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 11:27 -0500
                Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 09:41 -0700
  Re: Practice question Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-05 19:47 -0400
    Re: Practice question Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-10-05 20:18 -0400
      Re: Practice question Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-07 08:48 +0000
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