An absolute Newbie question

[wpog]

Hello,

I have a question about using "IDLE", and that is whenever I start write my  
own program in the "Python Shell" it will automatically execute whatever 
command I have written, for example: >>> print 'Hello World"

So, how to I get it to not execute, so that I can write a program that has 
ordinary executable functions, and stuff like that?

I do have some experience with Turbo Pascal, and so I'm hoping that this 
will be an even easier language to learn, and thus far it does seem so, but 
I need to get past this first;-).

Thanks in advance,

wpog
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Re: An absolute Newbie question

[wpog]

WOW!!!

I really appreciate the immediate response from the community!!! I thank 
you all for all the help, and now I can start programming, and I also now 
have a resource for help for a Newbie;-)

Later on I will broach the subject of creating .exe programs so that anyone 
can run them on Windows, but that won't be for a while yet, but I did 
download ":cx_Freeze-3.0.1-win32-py24"; however, I don't have a clue on 
what the hell I'm doing yet, so I'll get to that later.

Anyway, I once again thank you all for the support, and suggestions, and I 
hope to actually create something that people might use, like a magic 8 
ball generator!;-p

Best Regards,
wpog




"Scott Durkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> wpog,
> 
> In IDLE, go to the File menu and select New Window.  You can write
> your program there.  Just save the file with the extension .py, such
> as hello.py
> 
> Once the program is written, you can save the changes and press F5 to
> run the script.
> 
> If you haven't checked out the links below, you might want to refer to
> them: 
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy
> http://www.honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/easytut.html
> 
> Scott Durkin
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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