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Matthew Barnett  
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 More options Aug 5 2012, 9:01 pm
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From: Matthew Barnett <mrabarn...@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:01:47 +0100
Local: Sun, Aug 5 2012 9:01 pm
Subject: Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution
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On 06/08/2012 01:58, MRAB wrote:

> On 06/08/2012 01:09, Rotwang wrote:
>> On 06/08/2012 00:46, PeterSo wrote:
>>> 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

>>> # calculating the mean

>>> data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]

>>> def mean(data):
>>>    return sum(data)/len(data)

>>> mean(data1)

>>> There is no syntax highlighting and when I ran it F5, I got the
>>> following in the shell window.

>>>   >>> ================================ RESTART
>>> ================================

>>> Any ideas?

>> 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.

> It looks like it's IDLE.

Actually, he does say that it's IDLE at the start.
[snip]

 
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