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This is a waste of energy as there a cleaner clearer more effective ways of dealing with this script. You can go much cleaner and just do a Markdown Slideshow. Alternatively allow for a little real automation and use something like Expect or Pexpect.

https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html

Don't pretend to yourselves that presenting a series of instructions and only advancing on when someone clicks enter will prevent people hit enter.

Even worse is someone missed up there's no going back. You have to either restart the whole process or you have to go and read over the python script.

This is not something that prevents or helps with slog.




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