Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Friday, February 20, 2009 9:41:42 AM UTC-6, David Smith wrote: What I meant was open open the command prompt, type cd, space, DO NOT hit enter yet. Drag the folder with your script into the command prompt window. Then go to the command prompt window and hit enter. This should compose a command similar to the following: And why the hell would you resort to such contrived contortions as that? Are you masochistic? DoubleClicking an icon will take me less that one second. How long does this sequence take: 1. Open a command prompt 2. type c 3. type d 4. type space 5. hover over the folder icon with your mouse 5.5. Oops, i missed. Go back to step 5! 6. Mouse click the file icon 7. Mouse drag the file icon 8. Position the mouse over prompt window 9. Release the icon 10. Press the Enter key Can anybody say !Ay, caramba!? Besides, you can skip most of those steps by Shift+RightClicking the file icon and choosing Open Command Window Here. But, why the hell would you EVEN do that when two simple clicks will suffice? practicality beats purity -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:35 AM, rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote: Besides, you can skip most of those steps by Shift+RightClicking the file icon and choosing Open Command Window Here. That's not standard. Me, I can invoke git bash anywhere I want it, but that doesn't mean I'd recommend installing git just so that people can get command lines with less steps. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:57:00 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:35 AM, rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote: Besides, you can skip most of those steps by Shift+RightClicking the file icon and choosing Open Command Window Here. That's not standard. Me, I can invoke git bash anywhere I want it, but that doesn't mean I'd recommend installing git just so that people can get command lines with less steps. I don't understand Chris? It's obvious that the OP is on a windows box; for which no installation is required. And, what is so egregious about less steps(sic)? Do you prefer to be unproductive? Did you forget the lazy programmers creed? Is your employer paying you by the hour? ...all good questions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Rick Johnson rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:57:00 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:35 AM, rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote: Besides, you can skip most of those steps by Shift+RightClicking the file icon and choosing Open Command Window Here. That's not standard. Me, I can invoke git bash anywhere I want it, but that doesn't mean I'd recommend installing git just so that people can get command lines with less steps. I don't understand Chris? It's obvious that the OP is on a windows box; for which no installation is required. I have here a Windows XP system (shh, it doesn't know there's Linux between it and the hardware) which has no such context-menu item. Ergo it is not standard and cannot be assumed to be on the target computer, and installation IS required. And, what is so egregious about less steps(sic)? Do you prefer to be unproductive? Did you forget the lazy programmers creed? Is your employer paying you by the hour? ...all good questions. And if you're going to quibble about fewer steps then you should probably have an apostrophe in lazy programmers' creed. Just sayin'. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:06:42 PM UTC-6, W. eWatson wrote: I'm using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or compile errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? Q: If you are in fact using IDLE to edit your code file, then why not just run the files directly from the IDLE menu (Menu-Run-Run Module)? If you select this command, IDLE will display a shell window containing all the stdout and stderr messages. I think this would be the easiest approach for a neophyte administrator like yourself. See this tutorial for more info: https://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/index.html There are many methods of executing a python script. Using the IDLE run command is just one of them. Some others include: 1. Double clicking the file icon in a file browser 2. Typing the full path of the script into a windows Command Prompt. Considering i have a script in my C drive named foo.py, i could type the command C:\foo.py to execute the script from a windows command prompt. But my fingers don't need any exercise, so i just double click the icon or use the run command of my IDE. Done deal. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Friday, February 20, 2009 4:06:42 AM UTC, W. eWatson wrote: I#39;m using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or quot;compilequot; errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15#39; 7quot; N, 121° 2#39; 32quot; W, 2700 feet Web Page: lt;www.speckledwithstars.net/gt; Thanks this solved my problem too(the same issue - I was also double clicking instead of right clicking - edit with IDLE - F5 to run) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
I think you can use pythonw.exe which will read stdin and for any input before closing. (I read this a while back, ma guy here.) Sent from my iPhone On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:27 AM, summerholidaylearn...@gmail.com summerholidaylearn...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 20, 2009 4:06:42 AM UTC, W. eWatson wrote: I#39;m using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or quot;compilequot; errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15#39; 7quot; N, 121° 2#39; 32quot; W, 2700 feet Web Page: lt;www.speckledwithstars.net/gt; Thanks this solved my problem too(the same issue - I was also double clicking instead of right clicking - edit with IDLE - F5 to run) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
Matimus wrote: On Feb 19, 8:06 pm, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or compile errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ Open a console window and type in the name of the script rather than just double clicking on it. Or, you can terminate your script with a 'raw_input(press enter to quit)'. Matt I can open the Python command line from Start, but how do I navigate to the folder where the program is? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: Matimus wrote: On Feb 19, 8:06 pm, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or compile errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ Open a console window and type in the name of the script rather than just double clicking on it. Or, you can terminate your script with a 'raw_input(press enter to quit)'. Matt I can open the Python command line from Start, but how do I navigate to the folder where the program is? I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Feb 19, 2009, at 23:06 , W. eWatson wrote: I'm using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. Is there a reason you are executing them directly? Why not just run the script from IDLE with Run/Run Module (F5) until you are sure there are no errors? You can follow the advice already posted, by running it directly from the commandline. Another hack is to put: x=raw_input(pausing...) at the end of your script, but this is really a hack and it would be better to use a different solution. bb -- Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. Whoa! What's going on here? I just looked at About IDLE, and it shows 1.2.2, but yet the second edition of Learning Python talks about going to 2.3 as the book is about to go to press, 2004. I thought IDLE came bundled with Python. I have Py 2.5. 1.2.2??? Puzzled. -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Whoa! What's going on here? I just looked at About IDLE, and it shows 1.2.2, but yet the second edition of Learning Python talks about going to 2.3 as the book is about to go to press, 2004. I thought IDLE came bundled with Python. I have Py 2.5. 1.2.2??? Puzzled. IDLE is a separate product; the version of IDLE that comes with Python 2.5.4 is 1.2.4 -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Whoa! What's going on here? I just looked at About IDLE, and it shows 1.2.2, but yet the second edition of Learning Python talks about going to 2.3 as the book is about to go to press, 2004. I thought IDLE came bundled with Python. I have Py 2.5. 1.2.2??? Puzzled. IDLE is a separate product; the version of IDLE that comes with Python 2.5.4 is 1.2.4 Where do I get 2.x.x, or the latest? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively. If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on the file name, I get a window with the the title \Python25\pythonexe that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep that window up? Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window called in the example I gave with raw_input? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively. If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on the file name, I get a window with the the title \Python25\pythonexe that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep that window up? Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window called in the example I gave with raw_input? Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:29:35 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Whoa! What's going on here? I just looked at About IDLE, and it shows 1.2.2, but yet the second edition of Learning Python talks about going to 2.3 as the book is about to go to press, 2004. I thought IDLE came bundled with Python. I have Py 2.5. 1.2.2??? Puzzled. IDLE is a separate product; the version of IDLE that comes with Python 2.5.4 is 1.2.4 Where do I get 2.x.x, or the latest? You may update your Python version to 2.5.4 (the latest release in the 2.5 series). Then IDLE will report 1.2.4. They are separate products, their version numbers are uncorrelated. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:39:14 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Catherine Heathcote wrote: you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively. Open a command prompt (CMD, Console), that black window you were looking at. Use the cd command to change directory to wherever your Python script is saved. Execute python -V (without the quotes). You should get a response, including the Python version number. If you get an error like command not found or similar, you'll have to use the whole path to python.exe -- try with c:\python25\python -V (again, no quotes). Once you know how to launch Python, you can: a) Enter the interactive interpreter: Just launch Python as above but without the -V argument. The prompt is now You can type Python expressions and the interpreter evaluates them. You type 2+3, the interpreter answers 5; you type len(abc), the interpreter answers 3... b) Or, from the command prompt, you can execute a script by launching Python the same way as above, passing the script name as an argument: c:\foopython script_name.py This is what you were looking for - in case of syntax errors or something, you can see the output on the console. It stays open because it was open *before* you launched Python. Just keep the window open. See http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html for more info. If Python doesn't start just by typing python, you may want to set your PATH environment variable as described there. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively. If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on the file name, I get a window with the the title \Python25\pythonexe that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep that window up? Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window called in the example I gave with raw_input? Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it. Shirley, you jest? DOS? To do this? How ugly. I barely recall the DOS commands. I get to drill my way down 4 levels of folders. What DOS cmd allows one to list only folders? Still, why would one design a window that disappears, when it has useful data in it? I see that if I click on the window, it has properties, width, height, etc. -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:29:35 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Whoa! What's going on here? I just looked at About IDLE, and it shows 1.2.2, but yet the second edition of Learning Python talks about going to 2.3 as the book is about to go to press, 2004. I thought IDLE came bundled with Python. I have Py 2.5. 1.2.2??? Puzzled. IDLE is a separate product; the version of IDLE that comes with Python 2.5.4 is 1.2.4 Where do I get 2.x.x, or the latest? You may update your Python version to 2.5.4 (the latest release in the 2.5 series). Then IDLE will report 1.2.4. They are separate products, their version numbers are uncorrelated. Ah, I see, the book is referring to version 2.3 of Python and not IDLE. -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. What I meant was open open the command prompt, type cd, space, DO NOT hit enter yet. Drag the folder with your script into the command prompt window. Then go to the command prompt window and hit enter. This should compose a command similar to the following: C:\Documents and Settings\user cd C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Project C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Project _ --David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively. If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on the file name, I get a window with the the title \Python25\pythonexe that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep that window up? Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window called in the example I gave with raw_input? Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it. Shirley, you jest? DOS? To do this? How ugly. I barely recall the DOS commands. I get to drill my way down 4 levels of folders. What DOS cmd allows one to list only folders? Still, why would one design a window that disappears, when it has useful data in it? I see that if I click on the window, it has properties, width, height, etc. Thats programming. Whaterver the language, you will need to be comfortable with the CLI of your operating system. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
David Smith wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. What I meant was open open the command prompt, type cd, space, DO NOT hit enter yet. Drag the folder with your script into the command prompt window. Then go to the command prompt window and hit enter. This should compose a command similar to the following: C:\Documents and Settings\user cd C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Project C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Project _ --David Ah, I thought I'd be clever and do a copy on the path name in the address area at the top of the folder. That doesn't work. I'm quite surprised though that one can do the drag as you say. But, hey, it works. Thanks. I wonder what else non-DOS things can be done in it? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:37:06 -0200, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net escribió: Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it. Shirley, you jest? DOS? To do this? How ugly. I barely recall the DOS commands. I get to drill my way down 4 levels of folders. What DOS cmd allows one to list only folders? After executing these two commands, pressing TAB will auto-complete matching filenames/directories: reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor /v CompletionChar /t REG_DWORD /d 9 reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor /v PathCompletionChar /t REG_DWORD /d 9 (Overwrite the previous value, if exists). This is a global change and the logged on user must have administrative rights to modify the registry. Unprivileged users must use HKCU instead of HKLM. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Catherine Heathcote wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start-run and hit cmd enter without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes, it has cd, and so on. I'm also looking at the Python command line window. It allow one to run interactively. If I write a simple python program with just raw_input, by clicking on the file name, I get a window with the the title \Python25\pythonexe that shows the prompt. If I deliberately put a syntax error in the program, and run it by clicking the file, then A window appears and disappears so quickly that I have no idea what it said. How do I keep that window up? Which, if any, of these is the real Python console? What is the window called in the example I gave with raw_input? Run the program from within the MS command line, not by double clicking it. Or create a .bat file containing the commands to run the Python program, ending with the command pause, which will wait for you to press a key when the program has quit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
W. eWatson wrote: David Smith wrote: W. eWatson wrote: I'm not sure whether I should feel old or write a smart alec comment -- I suppose there are people in the world who don't know what to do with a command prompt Assuming a Windows system: 2. Type 'cd ' (as in Change Directory) in the command prompt window (w/o the single quote characters) 3. Drag/drop the folder containing your python script to your command prompt window 4. Hit enter in your command prompt window. 5. Type python my_script_name.py to execute my_script_name.py. --David If I enter just cd, then it tells me cd is not defined. If I enter c:/python25, it tells me I have a syntax error at c in c:. The title of the black background window I have up with a prompt shown in it is Python(command line). Maybe this isn't the real Python console window? What I want is that if I execute the program by double clicking on its name to display the console window with the program or syntax errors shown without it closing in a split second. Putting read_raw in it doesn't work, since some error prevents it from ever being seen. What I meant was open open the command prompt, type cd, space, DO NOT hit enter yet. Drag the folder with your script into the command prompt window. Then go to the command prompt window and hit enter. This should compose a command similar to the following: C:\Documents and Settings\user cd C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Project C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Project _ --David Ah, I thought I'd be clever and do a copy on the path name in the address area at the top of the folder. That doesn't work. I'm quite surprised though that one can do the drag as you say. But, hey, it works. Thanks. I wonder what else non-DOS things can be done in it? Well, there is a difficulty with this method. The path is very long, and one must change the property width of the window. However, putting the name of a long py file further complicates this. The negative surprise here is that I'm trying to avoid executing the program in IDLE, because I'm told elsewhere it produced erroneous error msgs. They are exactly the same here. I'll take this up on another thread. -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
I'm using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or compile errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE
On Feb 19, 8:06 pm, W. eWatson notval...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm using IDLE for editing, but execute programs directly. If there are execution or compile errors, the console closes before I can see what it contains. How do I prevent that? -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7 N, 121° 2' 32 W, 2700 feet Web Page: www.speckledwithstars.net/ Open a console window and type in the name of the script rather than just double clicking on it. Or, you can terminate your script with a 'raw_input(press enter to quit)'. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
