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From: PeterSo <ojl...@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
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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

# 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?
If I added print mean(data1), it gave me a invalid syntax

# calculating the mean

data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 27, 56, 93, 68, 78, 22, 25, 11]
data2=[1,2,3,4,5]

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

mean(data1)
print mean(data1)