Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'causing': 0.04; 'subject:IDLE': 0.04; 'syntax': 0.04; 'fixes': 0.07; 'subject:Error': 0.07; 'test,': 0.07; 'subject:script': 0.09; 'wrote': 0.14; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'idle.': 0.16; 'pause': 0.16; 'prefixed': 0.16; 'renaming': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'library': 0.18; 'module': 0.19; 'trying': 0.19; 'file,': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'error': 0.23; 'fairly': 0.24; 'regardless': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; 'appear': 0.29; 'on,': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'quickly': 0.29; 'errors': 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'clicked': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'fri,': 0.33; 'actual': 0.34; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'test': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'idle': 0.36; 'module.': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'same.': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'called': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'deleting': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'numbers': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; "you've": 0.63; 'within': 0.65; 'url:png': 0.68; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=n/+WcpCGw3FUDu+mMFzd5oy/XBCzxoVqTIsQ50pNyyY=; b=m3Z0XmWmtUWyrlKRHUx6TmCTPrcbptboLX+L3HBnVqjBhcsXtZQt2qYkQs9nANkZIa Eq0+F4f3thGgZ5auf/DedjQVB4G2NuNIDz1WQJaqDU5w8drD4JgnF26scc7X8mJB5Dfp efq1IqQUs5pzS4iL4DShUIQY9j5aJ39BbDA8m6UhoXkF2QB3gMOlvhfjCJA1g7I7QrmN sUf5o3zlzmHjZIURU/GtCQ/n5kWUciLOf3f1K5iQMgZyuOkVf9VGfb135S5grSA5XIfp apbUiWI5n9rVcmBP23wEhibiv+O6u08guN8ATNa0URgezdOxSwapgafPt/4h71UNdlmI 105w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.15.193 with SMTP id z1mr5133186vec.40.1365089395607; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:29:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 02:29:55 +1100 Subject: Re: Error running any script in IDLE From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1365089398 news.xs4all.nl 6975 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48946 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:42758 On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:16 AM, wrote: > Im fairly new to Python. I was trying to run a script using IDLE and it came back with an error and immediately shut down. After this, every script I tried to test within IDLE would do the same. I wrote the following script: > > while True > x = input("test") > > It seems simple enough to not be screwed up in any way, but when I hit F5 to test, it gets red text and shuts down IDLE. It scrolls too fast to see before shutting down, but I right clicked the text quickly to pause it. This is what it comes back with: > http://s21.postimg.org/4so8merdz/asdfg.png > > Can anyone tell me what's going on, and why this error comes up regardless of what script I try to run in IDLE? It looks like you've made a module called 'random.py', which is shadowing the standard library 'random' module. In that file, you appear to have line numbers - note how line 42 is prefixed with the actual number 42 - and that's causing syntax errors deep inside IDLE. Try renaming or deleting your random.py to see if that fixes it. ChrisA