Simple import question about mac osx

[jmDesktop]

On Apr 29, 2:37 pm, "Jerry Hill" <malaclyp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM, jmDesktop <needin4mat... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Thanks.  That worked on mac.  But it does work like I said in
> >  Windows.  Don't know why.  Mr. Chun must also be using Windows because
> >  that is the way he does it in his book.
>
> It shouldn't work that way on windows either.  Can you tell us a
> little more about what you mean when you say you "compile this" under
> windows?  Normally, python code doesn't need to be compiled, so I'm
> wondering if you're doing something different from what we expect when
> you say you compile it and then import it in the interpreter.
>
> Are you by any chance writing code in IDLE, running it, then doing
> things in the interpreter?
>
>  --
> Jerry

On Windows I took the text file I created on mac with vi and opened it
in PythonWin.  I ran it.  It compiled.  I run the import and call from
the python interpreter.