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  Error running any script in IDLE mattgraves7@gmail.com - 2013-04-04 08:16 -0700
    Re: Error running any script in IDLE Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 02:29 +1100
      Re: Error running any script in IDLE mattgraves7@gmail.com - 2013-04-04 08:33 -0700
        Re: Error running any script in IDLE Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 02:38 +1100
      Re: Error running any script in IDLE mattgraves7@gmail.com - 2013-04-04 08:33 -0700
    Re: Error running any script in IDLE Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-04 17:12 +0100

#42756 — Error running any script in IDLE

Im fairly new to Python. I was trying to run a script using IDLE and it came back with an error and immediately shut down. After this, every script I tried to test within IDLE would do the same. I wrote the following script: 

while True
    x = input("test")
    
It seems simple enough to not be screwed up in any way, but when I hit F5 to test, it gets red text and shuts down IDLE. It scrolls too fast to see before shutting down, but I right clicked the text quickly to pause it. This is what it comes back with:
http://s21.postimg.org/4so8merdz/asdfg.png

Can anyone tell me what's going on, and why this error comes up regardless of what script I try to run in IDLE?

If I run it in cmd, it seems to work fine. 

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#42758

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:16 AM,  <mattgraves7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im fairly new to Python. I was trying to run a script using IDLE and it came back with an error and immediately shut down. After this, every script I tried to test within IDLE would do the same. I wrote the following script:
>
> while True
>     x = input("test")
>
> It seems simple enough to not be screwed up in any way, but when I hit F5 to test, it gets red text and shuts down IDLE. It scrolls too fast to see before shutting down, but I right clicked the text quickly to pause it. This is what it comes back with:
> http://s21.postimg.org/4so8merdz/asdfg.png
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on, and why this error comes up regardless of what script I try to run in IDLE?

It looks like you've made a module called 'random.py', which is
shadowing the standard library 'random' module. In that file, you
appear to have line numbers - note how line 42 is prefixed with the
actual number 42 - and that's causing syntax errors deep inside IDLE.
Try renaming or deleting your random.py to see if that fixes it.

ChrisA

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#42759

Thanks Chris, that worked. Like I said, I'm fairly new to python so I am still learning the ins and outs. Thank you. 

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#42760

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:33 AM,  <mattgraves7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris, that worked. Like I said, I'm fairly new to python so I am still learning the ins and outs. Thank you.

No probs. You provided all the information needed to solve the
problem, for which I am very much appreciative.

All the best!

ChrisA

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#42764

Thanks Chris, that worked. Like I said, I'm fairly new to python so I am still learning the ins and outs. Thank you. 

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#42763

On 04/04/2013 16:16, mattgraves7@gmail.com wrote:
> Im fairly new to Python. I was trying to run a script using IDLE and it came back with an error and immediately shut down. After this, every script I tried to test within IDLE would do the same. I wrote the following script:
>
> while True
>      x = input("test")
>

I see you've already got an answer but you didn't run the above code as 
you'd get a syntax error.  As you're new I'll leave you to find out where :)

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