[python-win32] Request for comments

[Mike Driscoll]

Tim Golden wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Mike 
> Driscoll wrote:
>> Tim Golden wrote:
>>> Yes, I tried that to see what you meant. I'm not sure there's
>>> much I'm going to be able to do about that, unless someone
>>> jumps in with a solution. My main point about the examples is
>>> that they're self-contained. (ie you don't need to prearrange
>>> any data or install any modules unless indicated). The ability
>>> to drop them into a Python interpreter window is a nice-to-have
>>> which I make use of whenever I'm posting code.
>>>
>>> If anyone can suggest anything here, even in the form of a hint
>>> in the docs, please let me know.
>>
>> Well, there's at least 2 ways around this.
>>
>> 1) Change it to:      import win32api; import win32con   (note the 
>> important semi-colon)
>> 2) Change it to:      import win32api, win32con
>
> That's fine for two lines, but I can't change a whole script to work
> that way :) The intepreter window in PythonWin just doesn't work
> the same way as the conventional console-based one, it seems.
>
>> However, any code that is more than one statement, I tend to copy 
>> into a blank file and save it before running it, which circumvents 
>> this issue entirely.
>
> Fair enough, and I think that my main point is that the code can run
> as-is, without needing any kind of setup. Pasting it direct into an
> interpreter session is handy to check it runs, but it's not a must-have.
>
> TJG
>
> </div>

True enough. I was only commenting on what the OP was commenting on. 
Putting semi-colons throughout would make for pretty ugly looking code.

Mike