Re: [Edu-sig] modules versus programs

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Ajoy
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:00:03 -0500, edu-sig-requ...@python.org wrote: Apropos: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-July/1031208.html Static data that doesn't need updating a lot might be easiest. I was recently suggesting the Periodic Table would make a good module.

[Edu-sig] modules versus programs

2010-04-19 Thread kirby urner
I'm sensing some confusion and/or a mish-mash of ideas around the idea of a Python script, module, library, program. In Python, these somewhat amount to the same thing in that to load a module is to run a script (even if it doesn't do anything). However, when people go to write a program,