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[Tim Golden]

Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Morgan Thorpe wrote:
>> Hello.
>>  
>> I'm am very new to the whole programming sence.
> 
> Welcome. :)
> 
>> I am trying to catch on but as soon as i want to write a program i've 
>> been told to use like 'notepad' in windows XP and save it as a .py file
>> i have gotten this far. Am i wrong so far?
> 
> It's fine so far. Computer programs (especially ones in python) are text 
> files which are formatted in a specific way which can be understood and 
> executed by Python.
> 
> When you write your program, you use an editor like notepad and save the 
> program as a .py file.
> 
> You're okay this far. The next stage is to ask Python to execute this 
> program. You do that by typing
> python program.py
> and hitting enter.
> 
>> If i am right why is it that i can't run it in anyway besides it 
>> opening in 'notepad' i've tried opening with Python but it doesn't work.


Have a look at this:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/windows/

and this:

http://docs.python.org/dev/using/windows.html

TJG