Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

[Catherine Heathcote]

W. eWatson wrote:
> Catherine Heathcote wrote:
>> W. eWatson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment --
>>>> I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do 
>>>> with a
>>>> command prompt....
>>>>
>>>> Assuming a Windows system:
>>>>
>>>> 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window 
>>>> (w/o
>>>> the single quote characters)
>>>> 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command
>>>> prompt window
>>>> 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window.
>>>> 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py.
>>>>
>>>> --David
>>> If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter 
>>> c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title 
>>> of the black background window I have up with a >>> prompt shown in 
>>> it is "Python(command line)". Maybe this isn't the real Python 
>>> console window?
>>>
>>> What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on 
>>> its name to display the console window with the program or syntax 
>>> errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw 
>>> in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen.
>>>
>>
>> you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to 
>> start->run and hit "cmd" <enter> without the quotes.
> Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm 
> looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the 
> Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively.
> 
> If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on 
> the file name, I get a window with the the title "\Python25\pythonexe" 
> that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the 
> program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and 
> disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep 
> that window up?
> 
> Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window 
> called in the example I gave with raw_input?
> 

Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it.