[Tutor] Newbie question

[Carroll, Barry]

Hello, Erik,

Welcome to the maillist.  

>From your description, is sounds like you are attempting to run the
scripts by double clicking on them from Windows Explorer, or from the
Run dialog on the Start menu.  Both these methods open a command window
in a new process, run the script, then terminate the process as soon as
the script ends.  

Try opening a command window manually, changing to the directory where
the script resides, and running the program from there.  That way the
window will remain after the script has finished, and you can see the
results.  

One way to get to a command prompt window is to use the XP start menu:

     Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt

HTH

BGC

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> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:03:08 -0600
> From: "Douglass, Erik" <EDouglass at gaylordhotels.com>
> Subject: [Tutor] Newbie question
> To: tutor at python.org
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> I am trying to follow some online first timer tutorials, and I am
> writing the practice scripts in notepad (only w32 at work :-()..   I
> save the script with a .py extension, and when I run it it opens for a
> brief moment in a command prompt then closes before I even have a
chance
> to see what it says.  This may seem trivial, but Python also happens
to
> be my first language so this is all new to me.    Using Python 2.4.2
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
> Erik
>