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Python for philosophers

Mark Janssen dreamingforward at gmail.com
Sat May 11 16:10:45 EDT 2013 
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Citizen Kant <citizenkant at gmail.com> wrote:
>[...] the starting question I make to myself about Python is: which is the single
> and most basic use of Python as the entity it is? I mean, beside
> programming, what's the single and most basic result one can expect from
> "interacting" with it directly (interactive mode)? I roughly came to the
> idea that Python could be considered as an economic mirror for data, one
> that mainly mirrors the data the programmer types on its black surface, not
> exactly as the programmer originally typed it, but expressed in the most
> economic way possible. That's to say, for example, if one types >>>1+1
> Python reflects >>>2. When data appears between apostrophes, then the mirror
> reflects, again, the same but expressed in the most economic way possible
> (that's to say without the apostrophes).

Wow.  You must be from another planet.  Find Socrates if you wish to
know these things.  He's from there also.

A-dam.
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