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Tess
@xsphi
wow the replies to this have the highest density of bad coding advice I've ever seen
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
bruh im like 'ok maybe i can try learning python on my own' and immediately am stuck cause i cant figure out how to make my cursor go up to delete a previous line
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Tess
@xsphi
It's a perfect storm: - hot woman asking being confused about coding on the internet - massive following of almost-but-not-quite-intelligent nerds - incomprehensible issue that *sounds* like a normal beginner problem
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@xsphi
I hope this is bait because if so it's brilliant What box? What program is it in? Deliciously ambiguous! (if this isn't bait than I'm sorry aella, and I'll explain setting up a Python dev environment in DMs if you want me to)
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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the box says "python" on the top of it
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@xsphi
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oh, ok, so what I think you did is run the python interpreter directly, and your OS made a terminal window for it. Usually you use python to run a script (a text file containing code), but if you run it without a script it puts you in the slightly weird interactive mode.
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@xsphi
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And because there's so many tutorials, tools, websites, code editors, etc that try to make running python "easy", running it in the simplest most direct way is actually pretty unusual for beginners, so finding resources on how to do that correctly is oddly hard.
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