[Tutor] program spontaneously closes...

[Alan Gauld]

"Alan Gilfoy" <agilfoy at frontiernet.net> wrote

> The command line program seems to work through my program OK, but 
> the
> command line program shuts down immediately after the program has 
> run

Yes this is normal behaviour.
There are several ways around it, one of which is the
raw_input trick you have used.

Another is to change the Python startup behaviour to include
the /i parameter to python which causes the interpreter not
to exit - handy for debugging faulty scripts.

These options are discussed near the end of the Style topic in
my tutor

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld