On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:25:41 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:40:16 -0400, no@none.invalid declaimed the >following: > >> >>So to run a .py program, you have to right click and select the pull >>down menu Edit with IDLE and then inside that menu you pick Edit with >>IDLE. Seems a little redundant. > > No... In a properly configured system, to RUN a .py program, you just >double-click it. It will likely open a system console for stdout (a .pyw >file is commonly used for Python scripts that do not make use of >stdin/stdout/stderr -- ie; a program written using one of the graphical >toolkits). > > Since I have always used ActiveState builds, my context menu has "Edit >with PythonWin" and does NOT have any mention of IDLE. I wasn't trying to run a Python program. I wanted to Edit it with IDLE. When I said "run the program" I was talking about IDLE. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
