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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare and contrast Perl v Python Post 302842795 by wisecracker on Saturday 10th of August 2013 10:48:26 AM
Old 08-10-2013
Python is fully interactive by default and one can work from a Python prompt directly.

Just enter
Code:
python<CR>

from a terminal and away you go...

Perl OTOH can be set to an interactive environment by invoking the debugger but I have no serious experience on this language at all; just enter
Code:
perl -de 1<CR>

and you will have an interactive seesion.

Python relies entirely on indentation for correct operation, so beware, do NOT mix say 8 spaces with a tab inside the same indented code piece...

The python error reports, (tracebacks), are IMO excellent...

As I have little or no experience in perl then I can't comment....
 

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IRUNNER(1)																IRUNNER(1)

NAME
irunner - interactive runner interface SYNOPSIS
irunner [options] file_to_run DESCRIPTION
irunner is an interface to the various interactive runners available in IPython's irunner module. It can used to run scripts as if they where typed up interactively. The already implemented runners are listed below; adding one for a new program is a trivial task, see the source for examples. OPTIONS
-h, --help show this help message and exit --ipython IPython interactive runner (default). --python Python interactive runner. --sage SAGE interactive runner. EXAMPLE
irunner.py --python -- --help will pass --help to the python runner. Similarly, irunner.py --ipython -- --interact script.ipy SEE ALSO
ipython(1) AUTHOR
irunner is an extension of Ken Schutte <kschutte-AT-csail.mit.edu>'s script contributed on the ipython-user list: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-user/2006-May/003539.html This manual page was written by Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Modified by Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez@berkeley.edu> for inclusion in IPython. July 15, 2011 IRUNNER(1)
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