On 4 July 2016 at 18:07, Michael Smolen <8smo...@tds.net> wrote: > Folks: > > I am new to this programming adventure. I've gotten past the introductory > chapters in 'How to..." books and now want to start developing a much more > complicated program that I will use repeated for different applications. When > I worked in Perl there was an option to write a program in a text editor, > save it, and then run in with Perl. Is such a thing possible in Python? If > not, how do I develop a 500+ lines of code?
Yes, the same way it works in Perl. Use the .py file extension and run the `python` interpreter from command line, or use an IDE that would help you with that. > A second question of the basic design. If I write a program, can I move it to > a computer that is without any Python software, or does that machine have to > download the Python software? Does Python products contain all parts of a > developed program or is it a series of 'call' statements? You must either install a Python interpreter on that machine, or distribute one with your program. -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
