[Tutor] FW: Help Needed

[Carroll, Barry]

Alan is right.  According to section 3.5.2 of "Learning Python, 2nd
Edition", by David Ascher and Mark Lutz:

	Run scripts from text edit windows, not the interactive window. To
run 
	a file of code under IDLE, always select the Edit/RunScript menu 
	option from within the text edit window where you are editing the
code 
	to be run-not from within the main interactive window where the >>> 
	prompt appears. The RunScript option should arguably not be
available 
	in the interactive window at all (and in fact seems to have 
	disappeared in the recent release); if you select it there, you'll 
	wind up trying to run a log of your interactive session, with less 
	than desirable results!

Regards,

Barry

>Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:44:09 +0100
>From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] FW:  Help Needed
>To: "Daniel Watkins" <daniel at thewatkins.org.uk>, <tutor at python.org>
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>>         When I am in Python Shell of the IDLE GUI, when I click Edit/Run
>
>You shouldn't be running scripts when in the shell, it executes them 
>immediately.
>You use edit/run when working in a script file window.
>
>HTH,
>
>Alan G