My DOS window (running in windows ME) closes the second it finishes running my programs. As you can imagine, this makes it hard to see the results. I've gotten in the habit of putting raw_input("Press enter to exit") at the end of every program, and in addition to being pain in the butt, it often fails to work. Being new to programming in general, I make more mistakes than most people. My programs often have errors before they get to my raw_input command. They then display the error and immediately close. It is naturally a lot easier to fix an error when you know what the error is. This makes debugging even more annoying than it ordinarily would be, if you can imagine that. I've heard that it should be a simple preference fix, but I've asked around and no one seems to know how.
Thank you, and please make all answers simple enough to be understood by a highschool student and his father :) . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list