multiline prototyping on command line (oops)

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

Eric Smith <eric at fruitcom.com> wrote:
> Greg --
> gerglery at usa.net (greg andruk) posted in comp.lang.python on 30 
> Oct 1999 04:55:37 -0400:
>  > Anyway, Python's not especially amenable to one-liners.  Instead, it
>  > has a really spiffy interactive mode you can leave running in a window
>  > or spare console session that works like you probably wish `perl -d'
>  > worked:
> Yeah, it is a nice "shell" interface for testing, however one liners are
> useful:
> 1. I use their history arrows to access them from the unix shell
> 2. You can use the unix fc for editing long ones
> 3. You can paste them into your scripts.
> 4. They are easy to go back to and edit etc.

All of which apply to the Python shell with readline installed.

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