On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:14 AM, <peterfarrel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello to the group! > > I'm a new Python user and so far I'm enjoying it. One of the many newbie > problems I'm having is I can't edit my code in IDLE once it's run or there's > an error message. I can only copy the code so far, paste at the bottom and > continue coding. Is there something simple I'm missing, or should I be using > a different editor?
I only ever use IDLE in its interactive mode (at which, imho, it's rather better than the default Python interactive mode, as it auto-indents). In that mode, you can retrieve previous commands with Alt-P - at least, that's the keystroke on Windows, not sure if it's different on other platforms. For editing code that's to be saved in a .py file, I use SciTE, but a lot of people do use IDLE for that too. It's a matter of personal preference. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
