Re: [Visualpython-users] new files

[Arthur <ajs...@op...>]

> Arthur, you may be in a position to clear up something for me. Evidently
> you, like many other users of Python, find it convenient/useful/natural to
> do these little explorations in the shell rather than typing
>
> import cmath
> print dir(cmath)

Probably not much more to it than instant gratification, or flow, or
whatever you might want to call it.  At the prompt, I feel myself to be in
inquiry, exploration, and experiment mode.

Even though there is no compile cycle in Python, there is a "run" cycle when
working from script. And I associate a certain amount of  formality with
working in that mode.

Working at the prompt has a flow to it that can become something of a
dialogue with the language, in some sense.

All a little soft, as an explanation.  But as you say, I think I am not at
all unusual in using the interactive prompt in this manner.

Art