Gregory Sexton wrote: > Thanks for the help! Sorry for the trivial questions, but I guess we all > have to start somewhere. Beginning python student, OS Windows XP,using > Python 2.4. Also novice to programming. I cant get the "/a" command to > work. Shouldn't it be "\a", and it won't work from IDLE. You can save the file with the .py extension, and double click it from the file manager and it works fine. I booted XP JUST to test it :)
> the way I am learning from a book entitled "Python Programming for the > absolute beginner" by Michael Dawson. Thanks again. On page 25 there is a paragraph called 'trap' that warns about this. Hope this has helped, a little. Glen _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor