Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/5/2012 7:46 PM, PeterSo wrote:
> I am just starting to learn Python, and I like to use the editor
> instead of the interactive shell. So I wrote the following little
> program in IDLE
>
> # calculating the mean
>
> data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]
>
> def mean(data):
> 	return sum(data)/len(data)
>
> mean(data1)
>
>
> There is no syntax highlighting

If properly installed and working, IDLE does syntax highliting if and 
only if you name the file with a .py, .pyw, .pyo extension. I have a 
'play around' directory with a tem.py file that is always in the recent 
files lists. I use it for short shippets that are two long to directly 
type into the shell.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy