Windows command line not displaying print commands

[Terry Reedy]

JonathanB wrote:
> Ok, I'm sure this is really simple, but I cannot for the life of me
> get any print statements from any of my python scripts to actually
> print when I call them from the windows command line. What am I doing
> wrong?
> 
> hello.py:
> print "Hello World!"
> 
> command line:
> E:\Python\dev>python hello.py
> 
> E:\Python\dev>
> 
> 
> I'm using Python 2.6.1

I suspect that it opens the window, prints to it, and closes it in a 
blink of an eye.  If so, adding an input prompt after the print will 
stop the window from closing until you respond to the prompt.

a = input("hit return to close")

tjr