Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Terry Reedy Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: help with program Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 02:28:15 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <1392737302.749065.1459024715818.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1392737302.749065.1459024715818.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de GSdYKhUknRX2jb9JU8m0vARD/JR+qVCI6rn8hbI5N7mQ== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'root': 0.04; "'python": 0.07; 'emulates': 0.07; 'versions.': 0.07; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'ast': 0.09; 'exit.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'jan': 0.11; '2016': 0.16; 'entry.': 0.16; 'idle,': 0.16; 'jerry': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:program': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'tkinter': 0.22; 'trying': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; "haven't": 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'command': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'chris': 0.26; 'this.': 0.28; "skip:' 10": 0.28; 'program,': 0.29; 'there.': 0.30; 'code': 0.30; 'another': 0.32; 'screen': 0.32; 'though,': 0.32; 'run': 0.33; 'changed': 0.33; 'useful': 0.33; 'third': 0.33; 'usually': 0.33; 'idle': 0.33; 'instead,': 0.33; 'could': 0.35; 'done': 0.35; 'instance': 0.35; 'interact': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'development.': 0.36; 'faster': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'end': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'subject:with': 0.40; 'still': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'bring': 0.62; 'details': 0.62; 'received:96': 0.63; 'mar': 0.65; 'results.': 0.67; 'prompt': 0.79; 'open,': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-96-227-207-81.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:105820 On 3/26/2016 6:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Jerry Martens > wrote: >> hi im trying to run this program and it opens a screen really ast >> and closes it faster withou any results. > There are a few ways you could do this. One is to run it from the > command line. Another is to put this line at the end of the program: > > input("Press enter to exit. ") For a tkinter program, use 'root.mainloop()' instead, where root is usually an instance of tkinter.Tk. > That should bring up the same screen (called a "console") and then > have it wait until you're done reading it. If at a terminal, 'python -i file.py' not only keeps the program open, but brings up an interactive prompt so you can interact with the program. This is useful for development. > A third way is to edit your code using Idle, and run it from there. IDLE emulates 'python -i file-in-editor.py' > I haven't done that in a while, though, so the details might have > changed in the recent versions. Still F5 or the menu entry. -- Terry Jan Reedy