"earlylight publishing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I have the latest python version too when I first started "A Byte of
>Python"
> my code wouldn't work either. My problem was that I was programming
> in the shell (the screen with the three '>>>' on it). I found when
> I wrote
> the examples in a new window (cntrl+N) they all worked as
> advertized.
Unless you are doing some strange GUI type things it should work at
the >>> prompt too. (Sometimes you need an extra line - that could
fox beginners I suspect, if his examples contain multiple statements)
> He never mentions that you need to use an 'editing window'
> (I think it's called). I just stumbled across the fact.
You shouldn't need to use an editing window, but the >>> prompt
does execute each line 9or block) in turn thus:
x=0
for n in range(5):
x = n+x
print x
looks like this in IDLE:
>>> x=0
>>> for n in range(5):
x = n+x
<--Extra line here!
>>> print x
10
>>>
Is that the kind of thing you are seeing?
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