On 9-Jun-08, at 10:33 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:03:15 +0100, Patrick Quinn-Graham
<[email protected]> wrote:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
^D
Sophie:~ patrick$
Considering you're writing code there, it doesn't seem unreasonable
to
actually type the () to make it a function call.
considering he does NOT want to write code here, but he wants to stop,
quit, exit, or whatever, it is completely unreasonable to require the
parens. Very valid hate indeed.
Considering it's an interactive programming shell, and it tells you
exactly how to quit, I disagree. If it just said "No. Invalid syntax.
You're doing it wrong" without providing any hint as to how to fix it,
then I'd agree. It even says "or Ctrl+D". Ctrl+C should be as helpful
- I'll accept that.
~patrick
NB: I'm not a python developer, the only time I've ever used python is
when working with Google AppEngine.
