Terry Reedy wrote: [snip]
> IDLE is not the interpreter. Fine, I meant shell. Thanks for fixing that for me. > The IDLE Shell is intended mainly for single-line inputs. Maybe it should be limited to that, then. That way stoopid noobs like me don't use it wrong and then use the wrong nomenclature to complain about it. > For more than a three-line compound statement, I use the editor with > a scratchpad file where editing is much easier. Great tip, thanks. That's how I'll do it from now on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list