About IDLE?

Dr. Pastor

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Mar 9, 2006, 1:27:43 PM3/9/06

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Installed Python 2.4.2 on Windows XP.
Activated IDLE.
Loaded the following into the Edit window:
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# dates are easily constructed and formatted (Tutorial 10.8)

from datetime import date
now = date.today()
now

now.strftime("%m-%d-%y. %d %b %Y is a %A on the %d day of %B.")

# dates support calendar arithmetic

birthday = date(1985, 12, 1)
age = now - birthday
age.days
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When I select Run Module in the Edit window, I got only
two >>> after the RESTART line.
I expected to see the output of several commands!
Typing in age.days do produce the number of days.

Why I do not get any output?
Thanks for any guidance.

Sybren Stuvel

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Mar 9, 2006, 1:41:27 PM3/9/06

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Dr. Pastor enlightened us with:

> When I select Run Module in the Edit window, I got only
> two >>> after the RESTART line.
> I expected to see the output of several commands!

You never gave it any commands that print output.

I suggest reading the Python tutorial.

Sybren
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Fredrik Lundh

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Mar 9, 2006, 1:46:20 PM3/9/06

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"Dr. Pastor" wrote:

while the interactive console echoes the result back if you type in an
arbitrary expression, the interpreter doesn't do that if you run things in
a script.

to print stuff from a script, use the "print" statement.

print now
print now.strftime(...)
...
print age.days

your favourite tutorial (hopefully) contains more information about the
interactive mode, and how it differs from code in scripts or modules.

hope this helps!

</F>

Nick Smallbone

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Mar 9, 2006, 1:59:56 PM3/9/06

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Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Dr. Pastor enlightened us with:
> > When I select Run Module in the Edit window, I got only
> > two >>> after the RESTART line.
> > I expected to see the output of several commands!
>
> You never gave it any commands that print output.
>
> I suggest reading the Python tutorial.
>

To be more specific, when you type in an expression at the Python
prompt, it will evaluate it and then print it (if it doesn't evaluate
to None). In a module it doesn't do that, as then you'd have all sorts
of things printed out modules were imported.

Dr. Pastor

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Mar 9, 2006, 6:57:50 PM3/9/06

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Any reply?

Nick Smallbone

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Mar 9, 2006, 7:34:35 PM3/9/06

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Dr. Pastor wrote:
> Any reply?
>

ahem. three replies, when i counted:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/ab0c8455251e616c/

Dr. Pastor

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Mar 9, 2006, 9:24:14 PM3/9/06

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Thank you! I can see only your reply.
But indeed google prints three.
The mind boggles.

Terry Reedy

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Mar 9, 2006, 8:54:58 PM3/9/06

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> Installed Python 2.4.2 on Windows XP.
> Activated IDLE.
> Loaded the following into the Edit window:

> Why I do not get any output?
> Thanks for any guidance.

When you run code from an edit window, IDLE saves the file to disk and then
*imports* it into the shell window. If you *paste* code into the shell
window (regardless of where from), then it acts like you typed it and you
will get expression results echoed, as you expected.

I got caught be this at first too, since I have run many snippets by
pasting.

Terry Jan Reedy