Thanks for the responses, Terry and Chris, I'll try the shell, alt-P and I'll check out SciTE!
Peter On Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:35:06 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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
