Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'syntax': 0.03; 'interpreter': 0.04; 'subject:IDLE': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'mrab': 0.05; 'expressions': 0.07; '22,': 0.09; 'calculating': 0.09; 'highlighting': 0.09; 'pressing': 0.09; 'script,': 0.09; 'subject:Getting': 0.09; 'def': 0.10; '24,': 0.16; '37,': 0.16; '64,': 0.16; '66,': 0.16; 'does;': 0.16; 'from:addr:mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'guessing': 0.16; 'idle.': 0.16; 'message-id:@mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'received:84.93': 0.16; 'received:84.93.230': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:started': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'shell': 0.18; '>>>': 0.18; 'written': 0.20; 'runs': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'looks': 0.26; 'wrote': 0.26; "doesn't": 0.28; 'received:192.168.1.3': 0.29; 'restart': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'received:84': 0.32; 'print': 0.32; 'idle': 0.33; 'right?': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'there': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'editor': 0.37; 'does': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mean': 0.38; 'instead': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'little': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; "you've": 0.61; 'skip:= 30': 0.64; 'actually,': 0.84; 'start.': 0.84 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=IekFqBWa c=1 sm=1 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:17 a=DKcI9XZsuF4A:10 a=9KNvwgKiU5UA:10 a=ihvODaAuJD4A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=ZA8okfeWfzbhAgz31GkA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:117 X-AUTH: mrabarnett:2500 Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:01:47 +0100 From: Matthew Barnett User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution References: <501F16B4.8020306@mrabarnett.plus.com> In-Reply-To: <501F16B4.8020306@mrabarnett.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1344214905 news.xs4all.nl 6933 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54046 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26596 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]