The IDLE documentation (run idle -h) says that idle -r file.py
runs the commands in the file. Is that what you are doing? It looks different to your Win98 version. > P.S. I do all this to have accentuated characters (French) correctly > displayed, and this is done in the IDLE Shell, but fails inside the DOS > window. So this is why I want to have my scripts run directly inside the > IDLE shell... Do you have the correct language and locale settings set up in your DOS environment? It should be able to display French characters (and any other Western alphabet - not sure about unicode stuff though) just fine. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor