ok i just restarted my pc and it works now thank you ..ok when i go to the start menu then go to all programs then to python 2.4 it gives me five things ok it says IDLE (python GUI)
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When i click on IDLE (python GUI) the screan pops up and at the top it say python shell
*PLEASE* Reply to All. (For the reasons Danny Yoo mentioned. More than once.)
Yes, the window that pops up and is entitled 'Python Shell' is IDLE's enhanced python shell. I believe that 'python shell' (without further modification) is conventionally understood to mean the bare Python shell one gets from clicking on Python (command line). (That is the same you get by opening a DOS box and typing Python.)
The IDLE shell is only a part of the IDLE program. (Try File->New Window. Now you've got an IDLE editor window where you can write, save, and load scripts.[1].) The IDLE shell is enhanced by things such as syntax highlighting, and, compared to the bare shell on my Windows version at least, a scrollable and saveable history. There are also things that won't work well from the IDLE shell -- since it is itself a Python Tkinter GUI program, running a Tkinter GUI program from within it doesn't work too well.
[1] To stave off future worries -- when saving a script from IDLE, you have to explicitly give it the .py extension if you want your script to have it. (You do -- it makes it runable in Windows by double-click on the icon and tells IDLE to use the Python syntax highlighting which makes editing Python code much easier.)
Best,
Brian vdB
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