[Tutor] Interactive programming.

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:28 AM, A.T.Hofkamp <a.t.hofkamp at tue.nl> wrote:
> WM. wrote:
>>
>> Norman Khine wrote:
>>>
>>>  >>> i = 5
>>>  >>> j = 7
>>>  >>> if i <= j:
>>> ...     print 'nudge', 'nudge'
>>> ... else:
>>> ...     print 'whatever'
>>> ...
>>> nudge nudge
>>>  >>>
>
>> Yes, I understand how your program works.  What I do not understand is how
>> you got it.  My program came out in IDLE as you see it.  No ..., different
>> indentation, an error message before I could add the else alternative.
>>  (Which, as a Pythonista, one should know, is "Wink-wink".)
>
> In IDLE in the window with the ">>>" prompt:
>
> After the colon at the 'if' line, you press ENTER (ie you tell Python 'the
> line has ended here').
> The interpreter then supplies the "..." to denote that you are entering a
> multi-line statement.

No, IDLE does not supply the ..., that is the source of the confusion.

If you use the interpreter directly from a command/terminal window it
will supply the ... continuation prompt but the IDLE shell will not.

Kent