[Tutor] program spontaneously closes...

[Alan Gilfoy]

Hello All.
I've been concocting some simple programs based on an online tutorial,  
and I, of course, save a program as a .py file.

When running my program via IDLE, once I've cleaned out the bugs, it  
works as I expect it to.

But I noticed something else:

Clicking directly on the file's icon has the program open in the  
Windows command line program as a .exe file.

The command line program seems to work through my program OK, but the  
command line program shuts down immediately after the program has run  
through, as opposed to staying open in order to display the result. [I  
noticed that if the command line program is not waiting for a resposne  
to a prompt, it stays open.]

Relevant code block:

#rectangle stuff
length = int(raw_input("Please enter the length of your rectangle, as  
a whole number : ")) #lets user input a number
width = int(raw_input("Please enter the width of your rectangle, as a  
whole number : ")) #lets user input a number
area = length * width
print " "
print " "
print " "
print "the length is"
print length
print " "
print "the width is"
print width
print " "
print "So the area is"
print area
print " "

end = (raw_input("Type something, and press Enter, and the program  
should shut down."))
#workaround