--- Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Michael P. Reilly wrote: > > > Another aspect of your assignment will be to be > able to use this > > functionality from the "command-line". This > means: without asking questions > > from the user, but input is being passed as > arguments. > > John should get clarification from his instructor, > but I did not read it > that way. I read that requirement to "support a > command line query" as > meaning the program should prompt the user to enter > a query command; as > opposed to hard-coding the transactions in the coe > itself (as is sometimes > done at an intro level). > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
This may be the most important lesson to learn from this exercise: even experienced programmers can (and do) interpret requirements differently. When in doubt, ask! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
