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On 01/10/2012 02:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:35:02 -0700, Peter Farrell wrote:
>
>> Thanks for trying to help, everybody. Sorry I didn't post the whole
>> error message. Now my problem is I just installed VPython and I'm trying
>> to run the very first example, bounce.py which I located. I opened it
>> and ran it in Idle. I got this message:
>
> In general, any time you get unexpected or unusual errors in IDLE, you

>
> In Windows, I *think* that if you run "python" (or perhaps "python32")
> from the Start Menu, it will open an interactive prompt similar to IDLE.

Just python.  With the arrival of pylauncher 
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/ you can also type py [options].

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.