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

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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.
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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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