[Tutor] PYTHON ON DOS

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Fri Nov 14 21:13:49 CET 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, WM. <wferguson1 at socal.rr.com> wrote:
> Some say that Python programs run better on DOS.  I cannot find a way to do
> that.  I can go 'Python Command Line' to wind up on a black screen version
> of IDLE but I can't get from the interactive to executive mode.
>
> Is there any advantage to running .py on DOS?

If you write Tkinter programs they don't always run well inside of
IDLE (which itself uses Tkinter). Running from the command line (what
you call running from DOS) is one alternative.

Kent


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