[Tutor] Help with very basic question

[Anna Ravenscroft]

Harov Satmandirvich wrote:
> Hello.  Before I continue with a tutorial I would like
> to know something very basic:  Is there any other way
> to advance a line in Python than hitting
> "tabtabtabtab"..etc?   When I hit"enter?" it enters
> the line as if it was a complete bit of program.

When you're using the interactive interpreter, it'll keep doing that. 
BUT - it's easy to fix that. Presumably, you're using IDLE or something 
similar (if not - you probably should consider it. IDLE makes things a 
lot easier than the commandline interpreter - and IDLE comes packaged 
with Python.) In IDLE, just click on File > New Window and then type the 
statements in the new window. Use F5 to run it (it'll want you to "Save 
the File". Just give it a name like "temp1" or "testing" and enter. 
It'll try running the code in the main IDLE Shell and you'll see any 
errors that come up. It's a really handy way of working - I try out just 
about everything that way.

Hope this helps!
Anna