On 24/07/2018 9:25 AM, roflcopterpaul wrote:
Hello, everyone!

I am quite the scrub, having written a few super basic apps and currently going through the Django tutorial. As I'm going through the tutorial (creating a "polls" app), I've been perplexed by something the whole time that I haven't been able to find an answer to -

Why is much of the data the users see (i.e., the questions and answers to the questions) written in the shell INSTEAD of simply being typed up in the code/text editor? I'm new, so this is coming from a place of ignorance, by why is that? It seems way more complicated and less efficient.

It is an education thing. Python is an interpreter which means it can interpret and execute code directly as well as read a script and execute from that.

And you can enter data directly without needing to write/debug data entry code or skipping too far ahead of basic theory to get the Admin going.

Typing stuff in and seeing the results demonstrates things actually working. If you believe, you don't need to do it.

Typing it in directly gives you instant feedback and that's what a lot of people like. I've been using Python for a few years now and I still fire up the interpreter occasionally when I'm refreshing my memory about something I haven't used for a while. Or checking to prove something works as it should when results make me suspect I have gotten something wrong.

YMMV



Also, IS there a way to change up the code so everything can be directly changed in the files themselves instead of in the shell?

Thank you very much for any insight!
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