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Re: Editing in IDLE

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Thanks for the responses, Terry and Chris, I'll try the shell, alt-P and I'll check out SciTE!

Peter

On Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:35:06 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:14 AM,  <peterfarrell66@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello to the group!
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> > 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?
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> I only ever use IDLE in its interactive mode (at which, imho, it's
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> rather better than the default Python interactive mode, as it
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> auto-indents). In that mode, you can retrieve previous commands with
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> Alt-P - at least, that's the keystroke on Windows, not sure if it's
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> different on other platforms.
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> For editing code that's to be saved in a .py file, I use SciTE, but a
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> lot of people do use IDLE for that too. It's a matter of personal
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> preference.
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> ChrisA

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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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