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Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution
Date 2012-08-06 01:52 +0100
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On 06/08/2012 00:46, PeterSo wrote:
> I am just starting to learn Python, and I like to use the editor
> instead of the interactive shell. So I wrote the following little
> program in IDLE
>

[snip]

I can't comment on IDLE as I've never used it, but you're doing yourself 
a big disservice if you don't use the interactive shell.  Trying code 
snippets at the interactive prompt is one of the big benefits of using 
Python, ignore it at your peril :)

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

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Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution PeterSo <ojlise@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 16:46 -0700
  Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2012-08-06 01:09 +0100
    Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-06 01:58 +0100
    Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution Matthew Barnett <mrabarnett@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-06 02:01 +0100
      Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2012-08-06 02:13 +0100
    Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution PeterSo <ojlise@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 19:17 -0700
  Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-06 01:52 +0100
  Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-05 21:32 -0400
  Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution soloflyr@gmail.com - 2012-08-09 06:36 -0700

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