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

[soloflyr at gmail.com]

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 7:46:54 PM UTC-4, PeterSo wrote:
> I am just starting to learn Python, and I like to use the editor
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> instead of the interactive shell. So I wrote the following little
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> program in IDLE
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> # calculating the mean
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> data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]
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> def mean(data):
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> 	return sum(data)/len(data)
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> mean(data1)
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> There is no syntax highlighting and when I ran it F5, I got the
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> following in the shell window.
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>  >>> ================================ RESTART
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> ================================
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> Any ideas?
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> If I added print mean(data1), it gave me a invalid syntax
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> # calculating the mean
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> data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]
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> data2=[1,2,3,4,5]
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> def mean(data):
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> 	return sum(data)/len(data)
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> mean(data1)
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> print mean(data1)

did you call you file xxx.py  IDLE looks for the .py extension to identify the program as python code.