On Tue, 29 May 2007 20:56:31 -0500, "Szurek, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The console in Python is a real Windows window. When I run Python in > the Python console I get an output window that is a real Windows window. > All of that means that I can cut and paste freely into the code window > and I can cut and paste freely from the results window. The IronPython > "console" is not a console at all, it is the command line.
Your first statement is simply not true. The native console in Python is a command line tool, just like in IronPython. Start a command shell and type "python" to see this. Now, it is true that the Windows Python distributions include a couple of applications that happen to put a pretty GUI wrapper around the command line interpreter (including IDLE and pythonwin), but those are just wrappers. They are not the "Python console". > It is clumsy > and clunky and virtually unusable unless you are pre-Windows and happen > to like command lines! The fact that you aren't familiar with it doesn't make it "clumsy and clunky". Python started out as a scripting language, so its roots lie deep in the command line mentality. Yes, I happen to like command lines. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
