On Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:36:28 PM UTC+5:30, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:42:43 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody wrote: > >[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. > :) Hoo Boy! You may like to start here http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming/Interactive_mode Then stop and try what is suggested Then come back here and ask what (if any) goes wrong -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list