On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:42:43 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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 ... >] I don't know the difference, yet. I am gonna get around to reading the Internet one of these days. :) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
