Re: Re: Re: new print function in interim release 660

Mark Hahn wrote:
> Serge Orlov wrote:

>>>> 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
>>
>>> 5) Serge can write it.
>>
>>> Let me know when it is ready for testing.  I'll provide the
>>> interpreter hooks to call it.
>>
>> Sure, but I found the core too untested and incomplete to do any real
>> work right now.

> It will stay untested until we try to write real code with it and shake out
> the bugs.  When Lenard tried to write real code he found many bugs and
> helped test it a lot.  If you were to write real code it would help test it
> a lot also.

> If you were to write real code I would promise to give bugs you find very
> high priority.  Instead of working on the bug list every few days like now,
> I would work on your bugs as soon as you find them.

> This is what I was planning on doing with the doc generator application, but
> a console application would be good also.  Would you rather work on the doc
> generator?

The word incomplete includes classes to me. That's rather fundamental
thing which I want to know beforehand.

  -- Serge