[Python-ideas] Re: For-expression/throwaway comprehension

2019-08-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 03:56:55PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 03:52:31AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > Also a bit old-school (it took me many years to learn the value of > > > syntax highlighting), a

[Python-ideas] Re: For-expression/throwaway comprehension

2019-08-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 5:32 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 03:56:55PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 03:52:31AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > > > Also a bit old-school (it t

[Python-ideas] Re: For-expression/throwaway comprehension

2019-08-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:16:52PM -0400, Dan Sommers wrote: > I agree, but that's assuming that you "know" what's there and just have > to be reminded. IMO, it helps less with discovering new functions, and > even less than that when it comes to discovering "new" python modules. Pressing tab tw

[Python-ideas] Re: For-expression/throwaway comprehension

2019-08-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 6:16 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:16:52PM -0400, Dan Sommers wrote: > > > I agree, but that's assuming that you "know" what's there and just have > > to be reminded. IMO, it helps less with discovering new functions, and > > even less than that w

[Python-ideas] Re: For-expression/throwaway comprehension

2019-08-03 Thread Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
On Aug 3, 2019, at 01:04, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Not sure, but ISTR it would let you scroll through them. Not something > you can easily do in a plain terminal. IPython manages to get a lot of those same Jupyter Notebook features into a plain terminal—as long as it’s either termios-friendly

[Python-ideas] Re: For-expression/throwaway comprehension

2019-08-03 Thread Anders Hovmöller
> On 3 Aug 2019, at 11:48, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas > wrote: > >> On Aug 3, 2019, at 01:04, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Not sure, but ISTR it would let you scroll through them. Not something >> you can easily do in a plain terminal. > > IPython manages to get a lot of those same Jupy