[Tutor] Running Python from Windows command line

[Remco Gerlich]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:30:55AM -0700, Geoffrey Bays wrote:
> How do I run Python from the Windows 98 'run' line?  When I try to do so, 
> the MS-DOS window pops up for a flash and then vanishes.
> I have been working through 'Learning Python' running all modules from the 
> interactive interpreter using the 'import' command. I want to try the " 
> if__name__ == "__main__': " test in the book, but can't do so without 
> running modules from the command line.
> My apologies for such a newbie and windows related question. Thanks

You can just open a DOS box and give the Python command from there, so that
the window stays when the program is finished.

Or end your program with a 'raw_input("Hit enter to leave...")'.

There may be more sophisticated ways to do it, but I don't use Windows so 
I don't know :)

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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac@pino.selwerd.nl