Rolf, IDLE presents you with an interactive python prompt where you can enter your code : single statments, class definitions, functions and it will execute interactively.
>From the IDLE editor, I doubt if you can do what you want. In fact IDLE will force you to save your code in a file before you can execute it. To achieve what you describe (select a portion and execute) in IDLE, I use exec() or alternatively the compiler module both of which can take statements in a string variable and execute it. This works for me; may be there is a better way. Thanks, --Kartic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
