[Tutor] cmd window

[Wayne Werner]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dinara Vakhitova
<di.marvellous at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Excuse me for my stupid question, but I'm an absolute beginner in
> programming.
> I just would like to know what should I do in such case: when I run my
> program by clicking on the file itself, rather than from IDLE, the cmd
> window disappears just immediately after the output printing, so that I
> can't even see it. The solution must be very simple, but I can't find it in
> tutorials...
>

This is mainly because in later versions of Windows (XP onward, I believe)
they changed a setting so that the command window would close after a
program has executed. There are probably some more complicated settings to
fix it on a global basis, but you'll find that most people add this line to
the end of their programs:

raw_input("Press <Enter> to continue") # Use input() with Python 3.x

HTH,
Wayne
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