Newbie Shell Editor Question

[Harlin Seritt]

The Python shell you get with IDLE is actually not a system shell like
cmd.exe or sh, bsh, csh etc. It is a shell that allows the Python
interpreter to evaluate each line of Python code as you type.

This is why when you type 'hello.py' it tells you 'hello.py' is not
defined. On a higher level it simply tells you: you haven't initialized
this object called hello.py in memory and therefore the error. Also you
can't run python anything because in the interpreter python *hasn't*
been assigned any value.

Also, you can't quit the Python interpreter shell by typing exit.
You'll need to do a Control-D & Enter ;-)

Hope this makes sense.

Good luck.

Harlin Seritt