My DOS window (running in windows ME) closes the second it finishes running my programs. As you can imagine, this makes it hard to see the
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Thank you, and please make all answers simple enough to be understood by a highschool student and his father :) .
Hi Gavin,
you received some solutions. I have another, and a warning about Paul's.
The warning:
Paul suggested looking at IDLE. You should; it's a big improvement over notepad or the console. But, do you plan to make GUI application with Tkinter? If so, they will have troubles under IDLE. IDLE itself is a Tkinter application, so if it runs another Tkinter app, the poor beast gets confused about which Tkniter commands go where. (If that doesn't make sense, then you probably aren't yet at a place where it will matter. So, don't worry about it now.)
Another popular alternative is SciTe. If you are doing your code in notepad or an interactive window, you really do want to look into an alternative!
The other solution:
The exact procedure is Windows version specific, but you can change the behaviour of .py files when they are double clicked. Here's what I do on my Win version (ME), which, sadly for both of us, we share:
1) Open a file explorer window.
2) Pick Tool->Folder Options from the menu.
3) Select the File Types tab.
4) Select the .py file type in the alphabetical list of file types that pops up.
5) Click on the Advanced button.
6) Select the Open action.
7) It will start out with something like:
"C:\Python24\python.exe"
Put a -i immediately thereafter. Mine looks like this
"C:\Python24\python.exe" -i "%1" %*
The -i makes .py files when double-clicked within Windows. The rest has to do with sending command line parameters, but I'd muff it if I tried to say more ;-)
HTH,
Brian vdB
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