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Re: Editing in IDLE

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On 9/29/2012 1:14 PM, peterfarrell66@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello to the group!
>
> I'm a new Python user and so far I'm enjoying it. One of the many
> newbie problems I'm having is I can't edit my code in IDLE once it's
> run or there's an error message. I can only copy the code so far,
> paste at the bottom and continue coding. Is there something simple
> I'm missing, or should I be using a different editor?

You are missing how to use IDLE. It has two kinds of windows: 
interactive Shell and Edit windows. The shell more or less emulates the 
interactive interpreter, running one statement at a time. You can put 
the cursor on a previous statement and hit return to make it the current 
statement, where you can edit it. You edit normal multi-statement code 
in edit windows, hit F5 to run, edit, run, edit, run.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Editing in IDLE peterfarrell66@gmail.com - 2012-09-29 10:14 -0700
  Re: Editing in IDLE Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-29 13:52 -0400
  Re: Editing in IDLE Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 04:35 +1000
    Re: Editing in IDLE peterfarrell66@gmail.com - 2012-09-29 21:13 -0700
    Re: Editing in IDLE peterfarrell66@gmail.com - 2012-09-29 21:13 -0700

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