W. eWatson wrote:
Catherine Heathcote wrote:
W. eWatson wrote:
Catherine Heathcote wrote:
W. eWatson wrote:


I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a
command prompt....

Assuming a Windows system:

2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o
the single quote characters)
3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command
prompt window
4. Hit enter in your command prompt window.
5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py.

--David
If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a >>> prompt shown in it is "Python(command line)". Maybe this isn't the real Python console window?

What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen.


you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start->run and hit "cmd" <enter> without the quotes.
Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively.

If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on the file name, I get a window with the the title "\Python25\pythonexe" that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep that window up?

Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window called in the example I gave with raw_input?


Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it.
Shirley, you jest? DOS? To do this? How ugly. I barely recall the DOS commands. I get to drill my way down 4 levels of folders. What DOS cmd allows one to list only folders?

Still, why would one design a window that disappears, when it has useful data in it? I see that if I click on the window, it has properties, width, height, etc.


Thats programming. Whaterver the language, you will need to be comfortable with the CLI of your operating system.
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