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| Date | 2012-08-06 02:01 +0100 |
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| From | Matthew Barnett <mrabarnett@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
| Subject | Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution |
| References | <d07282d6-1666-4230-bf46-c0942ef9a390@r7g2000yqr.googlegroups.com> <jvn1vr$ln6$1@dont-email.me> <501F16B4.8020306@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2993.1344214905.4697.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 06/08/2012 01:58, MRAB wrote: > On 06/08/2012 01:09, Rotwang wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> # calculating the mean >>> >>> data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11] >>> >>> def mean(data): >>> return sum(data)/len(data) >>> >>> mean(data1) >>> >>> >>> There is no syntax highlighting and when I ran it F5, I got the >>> following in the shell window. >>> >>> >>> >>> ================================ RESTART >>> ================================ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> >>> >>> Any ideas? >> >> I don't know what editor you're using or how it works, but I'm guessing >> that pressing f5 runs what you've written as a script, right? In that >> case the interpreter doesn't automatically print the result of >> expressions in the same way that the interactive interpreter does; you >> didn't tell it to print anything, so it didn't. >> > It looks like it's IDLE. Actually, he does say that it's IDLE at the start. [snip]
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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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