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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-12-28 09:18:24 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-12-28 09:18:24 (GMT) |
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Remove confusing paragraph -- this is relevant only to advanced users anyway and does not belong into the tutorial.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index 20fae9a..8d743de 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ Some Python modules are also useful as scripts. These can be invoked using ``python -m module [arg] ...``, which executes the source file for *module* as if you had spelled out its full name on the command line. -Note that there is a difference between ``python file`` and ``python -<file``. In the latter case, input requests from the program, such as calling -``sys.stdin.read()``, are satisfied from *file*. Since this file has already -been read until the end by the parser before the program starts executing, the -program will encounter end-of-file immediately. In the former case (which is -usually what you want) they are satisfied from whatever file or device is -connected to standard input of the Python interpreter. - When a script file is used, it is sometimes useful to be able to run the script and enter interactive mode afterwards. This can be done by passing :option:`-i` before the script. (This does not work if the script is read from standard |