Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 12/27/05, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>but now we're back to today's situation: >> >> >>> quit >> 'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.' >> >>which violates the basic "if you know what I mean, why the /!"&/&!//%¤ >>don't you do what I say" usability rule. > > > What nonsense. Every Python programmer knows that the right way to > exit Python is to enter a platform EOF. The quit and exit variables > are compromises for non-programmers who have accidentally entered > Python and who don't know how to get out of it (this is usually the > same category of people who don't know how or don't dare to kill a > program using heavy artillery). > Except that if you have iPython installed on Windows you *don't* enter the platform EOF any more, you enter CTRL/D (which threw me for a while). Plus the standard Windows build requires a return after the CTRL/Z while the Pythonware versions (last time I looked) only required the CTRL/Z. So the situation is a little less black-and-white than it might be.
> Rather than improving upon the quit/exit functionality a la /F's patch > I'd get rid of the compromise. > I *have* been surprised by the amount on brainpower that's been expended on this discussion. > Now, for Py3K we could try to come up with a more intelligent > interactive mode. Probably not implemented in C. Perhaps using ideas > from ipython (which I've personally never used). We might provide a > quit or exit command using a more sophisticated mechanism. But there > are always costs (e.g. the violation of the primciple that typing a > name shows its repr()). > > In the mean time I'm a strong believer in "it ain't broke so don't fix it" > here. > +1, with the proviso that we might add a description of how to exit to the interactive rubric (if anyone can work out exactly what that would be under all circumstances). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
