On May 11, 4:37 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 5/11/2010 3:28 PM, Donna Lane wrote: > > > I have downloaded Python and I'm a beginner in every sense. > > Welcome. I hope you enjoy Python too. > > > What I want to> know now is when I am in Idle and have made a syntax error > how do I repair? > > After the error I can't type in anything and I get this bing noise. > > > Usually I just start idle over again. > > You cannot directly repair a line already <enter>ed.
Ok. > You must enter a new line. Huh?! I suppose it depends on what you mean by "enter". > In the command line interpreter, you should be able to hit up > arrow and have the line above copied to the current entry line for > correction. In IDLE, this does not yet work, It doesn't have to. Simply place the cursor on the line you originally entered and hit <enter>. > so copy and paste or retype. The line will be repeated as a new line which you can edit and make corrections. > > For anything too complicated for either of those (more than one line), I > use (and reuse) a temporary edit file in an edit window. Just make sure > the file is named <something>.py rather than just <something>. You save > and run the file with F5. If there is a syntax error, IDLE will say so > and reopen the cursor window with the cursor at (or after) the location > of the error. Fix and hit F5 again. Very fast. Sounds like you're making a mountain out of a molehill. You deserve a medal if you've been using IDLE without knowing how to edit. > > The main thing to watch is that you must say 'print(x)' rather than just > 'x' to print. File/Recent files lets one easily reopen the tem file (or > any other of the 20 most recently edited files). > > I use the tem file when I copy and paste more than a single line of code > from, say, a post here. > > Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
