Re: new print function in interim release 660

Mark Hahn wrote:
> The print keyword has been removed and replaced by a print function.

Works like a charm. Feel free to move the next todo item (pretty
print) down to ... interactive help(). This little useful function
reminded me that interactive console is getting more and more
complicated. Why not move it out of the core? The advantages:

1. Written in the sane language (not C) Mere mortals can hack it.
   I like currently handling of tabs and spaces in the console
   but compare it to http://codespeak.net/pyrepl/
3. Less code in the core.
4. Not needed for most applications

Here are other ideas:
1. On startup the core will read two variables (either from
environment variables or from configuration file). These
variables will be assigned to sys.console and sys.debugger
The first is the name of the module for interactive console,
the second is the name of the module for debugger for uncaught
exceptions. If the configuration file is absent the names
are 'interactiveConsole' and 'printTraceback'

2. If the interpreter wants to run the interactive console
it does:
import sys.console as InteractiveConsole
InteractiveConsole.run()

3. If the interpreter found uncaught exception it will run:
import sys.debugger as Debugger
Debugger.debug(exception)

4. Application can change sys.debugger. Debugger can log
the exception into file or show a window "Send report to
Microsoft" :-) etc...

5. printTrackback.debug(...) will just print the exception
like Python does.

6. sys.cons should be moved to console object


  -- Serge