On Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:39:32 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 23/10/2014 08:56, Ian Kelly wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> If you were to read and digest what is written it would help. You're > >> trying > >> to run IDLE. We're talking the interactive interpreter. > > > > IDLE includes the interactive interpreter. > > > >> If (at least on > >> Windows) you run a command prompt and then type python<cr> you should see > >> something like this. > >> > >> Python 3.4.2 (v3.4.2:ab2c023a9432, Oct 6 2014, 22:16:31) [MSC v.1600 64 > >> bit > >> (AMD64)] on win32 > >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > > > Same thing comes up when I start IDLE, so what's your point? > > > > When you run the interactive interpreter thats all you get. The OP > isn't the first person to try things with IDLE not realising you need to > have a script loaded to do something.
If I do (at the shell prompt with an example) $ python3 Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 2+3 5 And if I do $ idle3 I get a new window containing Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> 2+3 5 so... Still not clear whats your point. idle and python interpreter seem to be mostly the same [As best as I can make out the OP is not using the standalone interpreter nor idle nor (the many options like) python-interpreter-inside-emacs nor ipython nor ... ] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
