[Tutor] IDLE Usage - was Interpreter Restarts

[Sara Johnson]

Everyone who has commented...

I have XWin32....It hasn't worked.  I've talked to some people in the IT departments and they've given me things to check (boxes to check or uncheck) and that doesn't seem to make a difference.  

When I picked up these projects I was given a lot of stuff and left to figure it out.  I was also left with the impression that I should have the GUI working.  If a lot of Python programmers use SSH, then I guess there is no problem.  But when you're a newbie who really doesn't understand what they're doing, anything that might make the process a tad more straight-forward is worth it.  For example, I worked on this basic Unix editor 'Pico' before I learned I could switch to Vi and have my code color-coordinated so that I knew where my comments were and I could see if I accidentally commented something out that needs to be there.  So maybe it's not too important that I use the Python shell with my school's editor program open (as I was advised to do).  Some of you have already seen my confusion from the different questions I've asked about my code (or rather, the code I've been editing).  So I thought most of the Python programmers preferred to use IDLE and that maybe it
 would simplify things just a tad for me.  I'm about 2000 miles away from where I should be with these projects.

Thanks,
Sara 


----- Original Message ----
From: Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear at gmail.com>
To: Sara Johnson <sarliz73 at gmail.com>
Cc: tutor at python.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:24:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] IDLE Usage - was Interpreter Restarts


Sara Johnson wrote:
> First off, yes, I was referring to (I guess you could say) a 
> non-python editor.  I use an SSH editor set up by my school.  If I 
> type python at the prompt in SSH, I get the Python shell.  My problem 
> is, I can't open a GUI no matter what I subscribe to or purchase.  I 
> have Python 2.3 and yes, I can access the commandline, but that does 
> not work the way it's been described to work.
>  
> If this still doesn't make any sense, just ignore me...
I'm not sure what your problem is.  Does the SSH program provide a file 
transfer utility? could you write your code on your local computer then 
just transfer the final code to the server?  A lot of Python programmers 
use Vi for writing their code.  do you have access to that through SSH?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "SSH editor."
-Luke
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