newbie trouble with raw_input and idle

[Sam Schulenburg]

In article <37581eb4.2704370 at netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
  druid at princeton.crosswinds.net wrote:
> If I enter the following code (or any other using raw_input for that
> matter) into idle's shell it works, when trying to run it from a file
> (new window, edit it, save it then run it, nada)
>
> def f():
>     x=raw_input("ladida:")
>     print x
>
> f()
>
> systems involved are a win98 and an nt4 machines, tcl version 8.0.5,
> Python 1.5.2. The same code works under the plain Python interactive
> shell, and pythonwin, but not idle. Any ideas?
>
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I just tried your sample under windows NT with IDLE 0.4 and it worked OK
Sam Schulenburg


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