On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > FWIW, when I started using python (15?) years ago -- the first thing I
> looked for was a way to "just run a file", at the interactive prompt, like
> I had in MATLAB. I found and used execfile().
>
> Yes, if people are looking for a MATLAB replacement, they want IPython
> rather than the default REPL.
>
I didn't meant o distract the conversation here -- what I meant was that
even before iPython existed, I still dropped using execfile("") it was
hardly ever the right thing.
And for the micropython example, I'm proposing that a micropython
interactive environment would be a really nice thing to build -- and worth
doing, even if execfile() was still there.
By the way: iPython, while coming from, and heavily used by, the
scientific/numeric computing community, is a great tool for all sorts of
other python development as well. But probably too heavyweight for
micropython.
-CHB
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