Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:30 PM, CM <cmpython at gmail.com> wrote:
> In sum:  experimentation is for when you don't know what you're doing and there is no manual; but, after the initial learning time, you *should* know what you're doing and you should have the manual handy, and therefore the time for experimentation is largely over.


Yet with fast turnaround interactive languages, the interpreter IS
part of the manual. Keeping IDLE (I prefer it to command-line Python
on Windows, as the latter lacks GNU readline ergo no tab completion
etc) handy is at least as useful as keeping the manual up.

ChrisA