On 12/07/2012 18:48, John Magness wrote:
Using Python 3.2.3 In shell I made a simple program; dog=2,cat=3,cow=dog+cat Entered cow and received 5 as answer Saved-as Trial-1.py in a user folder Went to folder and select "edit with shell" for that file Trial-1.py displayed, clicked save, run and then run module to activate program got message in box "syntax error" and after I clicked OK the #2 in the heading Python 3.2.3 was high-lighted in red and the "or" and "for" words were changed to red letters and program seems to be text only. In other words, I am not able to re-use or change the program Help needed. John, a beginner
You were entering it in interactive mode. When you saved it as "Trial-1.py" what you actually saved was all of the prompts and the output, which isn't a valid program (it has lots of other bits mixed in with it). If you click File->New Window you will get an empty window into which you can type your program. You can just open the file and then edit it to remove the unwanted bits. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
