Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:57:00 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:35 AM, wrote: >> > Besides, you can skip most of those steps by Shift+RightClicking >> > the file icon and choosing "Open Command Window Here". >>

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-15 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:57:00 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:35 AM, 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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:35 AM, 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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-15 Thread rantingrickjohnson
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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-14 Thread rantingrickjohnson
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 y

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-13 Thread Rodrick Brown
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" wrote: > On Friday, February 20, 2009 4:06:42 AM UTC, W. eWatson wrote: >> I'm usi

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2012-07-13 Thread summerholidaylearning
On Friday, February 20, 2009 4:06:42 AM UTC, 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? > -- > W. eW

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread MRAB
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. Ty

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:37:06 -0200, W. eWatson 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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
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 windo

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Catherine Heathcote
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 Win

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread David Smith
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 wi

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:29:35 -0200, W. eWatson escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson 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 t

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
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. Ty

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:39:14 -0200, W. eWatson escribió: Catherine Heathcote wrote: you need to open a dos prompt before doing the steps above. Go to start->run and hit "cmd" without the quotes. Something is amiss here. There's the MS Command Prompt, which I'm looking at right now. Yes,

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:29:35 -0200, W. eWatson escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson 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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Catherine Heathcote
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 Direct

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
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 p

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson 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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0200, W. eWatson 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.

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Catherine Heathcote
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

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
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)

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread Brian Blais
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 alr

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread David Smith
W. eWatson wrote: > Matimus wrote: >> On Feb 19, 8:06 pm, "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? >>> -- >>>

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-20 Thread W. eWatson
Matimus wrote: On Feb 19, 8:06 pm, "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? -- W. eWatson

Re: Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-19 Thread Matimus
On Feb 19, 8:06 pm, "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? > -- >                                 W. eWatson > >               (121

Keeping the Console Open with IDLE

2009-02-19 Thread W. eWatson
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)