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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:44:56 +1000
Subject: Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 10:11:43 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> That's a neat trick, as long as you actually do have a console.
>
> Well if you don't have a console, another option is to use the
> dialogs of the "batteries included GUI" named Tkinter.
>
> from tkMessageBox import showinfo # Syntax == Python < 3.0

A GUI is another form of console. Not all programs are run in a
situation where this makes sense. Also, please don't post Py2-only
code when the OP clearly stated that 3.4.3 was being used...

ChrisA