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[Michael P. Soulier]

In article <slrn8lf95c.fu7.thomas at centurion.xs4all.nl>, Thomas Wouters wrote:
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>No. (other than 'python -c "import <myscript>"')

	I was thinking of that too. ;-)

>(Then again, contrary to my C and Perl code, both a fair bit, my Python code
>almost never has syntax/programming errors, and most of my programs are
>simple enough to do the unit testing 'by hand' ;)

	Fair enough. While I've had to pour over the extensive API to find what I
need, once I found it, it was easy enough to use. So far my only problems have
been trying to do too much in one line of code, which I do instinctively from
my C/Perl coding. ;-)

	I actually hate finding errors at runtime. It's my biggest complaint about
Perl, in that I can make a function call that doesn't exist, and I won't find
out about it until I hit that piece of code. I suppose python has the same
flaw? Dynamic binding is fine, but a check for typos like that would be good. 

	Mike

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