Gavin Bauer wrote: > 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 :) .
Even after all the IPO hype, the map integration, and the Suggest beta, Google is STILL your friend: http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+console+remain+open In other words, use the /k switch to cmd.exe Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list