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mdhcp5-79:~ mahoney$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20) 
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = "hello"
>>> a.upper()
'HELLO'
>>> a
'hello'
>>> a = a.upper()
>>> a
'HELLO'
>>> a.upper()
'HELLO'
>>> b = ['one', 'two', 'three']
>>> b.sort()
>>> b
['one', 'three', 'two']
>>> "abcabcabcabc'.replace('ab', 'TLE')
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    "abcabcabcabc'.replace('ab', 'TLE')
                                      ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
>>> "abcabcabc".replace('ab', 'THE')
'THEcTHEcTHEc'
>>> 'abcabcabc'.replace('a', '')
'bcbcbc'
>>> help(del)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    help(del)
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> a = [ 'one', 'two', 'three' ]
>>> del a[0]
>>> a
['two', 'three']
>>> b = "1234"
>>> b[0]
'1'
>>> del b[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: object doesn't support item deletion
>>> def loop_10_times():
...                        
  File "<stdin>", line 2
    
    ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
>>> def loop_10_times( func ):
...     for i in range(10):
...             func()
... 
>>> def print_something():
...     print "hi"
... 
>>> print_something()
hi
>>> print_something
<function print_something at 0x96730>
>>> loop_10_times( print_something )
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi
>>>