On Thu, 19 May 2005, Max Noel wrote: > On May 19, 2005, at 23:05, Terry Carroll wrote: > > > Thanks to you both. I think I may need to step up my "development > > environment" beyond emacs and a command line. > > Actually, if you're having problems with debugging your problem, > what you should step up is your approach to debugging/testing.
That's a fair point. However, most of the programming I'm doing right now is the Python Challenge! Not really programs I'm going to keep around and maintain. But I think my lesson here is to have two programming modes: one where I'm writing programs known to be throwaways (like these Python Challenge ones), where I don't do unit-testing and also don't use that "__name__ == "__main__" construct (what's the point of that in a throwaway, anyway?); and one where I'm writing a keeper, where I build tests. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
