Re: An absolute Newbie question

2005-07-10 Thread Justin Straube
wpog wrote: > I have a question about using "IDLE", and that is whenever I start write my > own program in the "Python Shell" it will automatically execute whatever > command I have written, for example: >>> print 'Hello World" > > So, how to I get it to not execute, so that I can write a prog

Re: An absolute Newbie question

2005-07-10 Thread wpog
WOW!!! I really appreciate the immediate response from the community!!! I thank you all for all the help, and now I can start programming, and I also now have a resource for help for a Newbie;-) Later on I will broach the subject of creating .exe programs so that anyone can run them on Windows

Re: An absolute Newbie question

2005-07-10 Thread Scott Durkin
wpog, In IDLE, go to the File menu and select New Window. You can write your program there. Just save the file with the extension .py, such as hello.py Once the program is written, you can save the changes and press F5 to run the script. If you haven't checked out the links below, you might wa

Re: An absolute Newbie question

2005-07-10 Thread Brian van den Broek
wpog said unto the world upon 10/07/2005 12:41: > Hello, > > I have a question about using "IDLE", and that is whenever I start write my > own program in the "Python Shell" it will automatically execute whatever > command I have written, for example: >>> print 'Hello World" > > So, how to I ge

Re: An absolute Newbie question

2005-07-10 Thread dirk dierickx
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:41:23 +, wpog wrote: > So, how to I get it to not execute, so that I can write a program that has > ordinary executable functions, and stuff like that? file > open new window the new window will not execute your code you type in there. -- The first thing we do, let'