Re: [Tutor] Python Characteristics.

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Langford
To add to Alan: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can interact with the operating system and file system using > modules such as os etc. But you can't do it directly as you can > in bash. But that is because bash has built in capability to execute > exte

Re: [Tutor] Python Characteristics.

2008-07-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Jeremiah Stack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I was pondering something. when you are in the live environment receiving immediate feedback is it basically a compiler (or program), responding to what the user inputs, Yes, technically its an interpreter rather than a compiler, although there i

Re: [Tutor] Python Characteristics.

2008-07-09 Thread Steve Willoughby
Jeremiah Stack wrote: Hello All, I was pondering something. when you are in the live environment receiving immediate feedback is it basically a compiler (or program), responding to what the user inputs, or is it like the bash shell where I could tell it to search the file system for a certain fi

[Tutor] Python Characteristics.

2008-07-09 Thread Jeremiah Stack
Hello All, I was pondering something. when you are in the live environment receiving immediate feedback is it basically a compiler (or program), responding to what the user inputs, or is it like the bash shell where I could tell it to search the file system for a certain file? Or how does python