[Tutor] Help with very basic question

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Sat Nov 27 02:17:53 CET 2004


> 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.

You can use a line continuatoion character (\) if you just want 
to break a line while in the interpreter.

But if you want to type multi line programs without the 
interpreter executing it as you go follow Annas advice 
and use a text file to store the code.

HTH

Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld


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