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From: PeterSo <ojl...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution
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On Aug 5, 7:09=A0pm, Rotwang <sg...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/08/2012 00:46, PeterSo wrote:
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> > I am just starting to learn Python, and I like to use the editor
> > instead of the interactive shell. So I wrote the following little
> > program in IDLE
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> > # calculating the mean
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> > data1=3D[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]
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> > def mean(data):
> > =A0 =A0return sum(data)/len(data)
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> > mean(data1)
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> > There is no syntax highlighting and when I ran it F5, I got the
> > following in the shell window.
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> > =A0 >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RESTART
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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> > Any ideas?
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> I don't know what editor you're using or how it works, but I'm guessing
> that pressing f5 runs what you've written as a script, right? In that
> case the interpreter doesn't automatically print the result of
> expressions in the same way that the interactive interpreter does; you
> didn't tell it to print anything, so it didn't.
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> > If I added print mean(data1), it gave me a invalid syntax
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> > # calculating the mean
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> > data1=3D[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]
> > data2=3D[1,2,3,4,5]
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> > def mean(data):
> > =A0 =A0return sum(data)/len(data)
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> > mean(data1)
> > print mean(data1)
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> If you're using Python 3.x, you'll need to replace
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> print mean(data1)
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> print(mean(data1))
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> since the print statement has been replaced with the print function in
> Python 3.
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> If you're instead using Python 2.x then I don't know what the problem
> is, but in that case your mean() function won't work properly - the
> forward slash operator between a pair of ints gives you floor division
> by default, so you should instead have it return something like
> float(sum(data))/len(data).
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> --
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Your right, it is v 3 so print(mean(data1)) worked.
Thanks.
I still do not have any highlighting in the IDLE editor.