Wits end

[Steve Williams]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> "Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:i9es0tgbd9e3v6pal53v06up6kq6e0s0fj at 4ax.com...
> >
> > >If I click on  hello.py the Dos window flashes for a second and is
> > >gone.
> >
> > What's happened is that the console has appeared, printed hello world,
> > and disappeared. This is a windows issue. If you want to be able to see
> > the output, you'll either have to run from a cmd prompt, or write a real
> > windows program.
>
> Or just place a rawinput at the end (with some prompt such as
> "press Enter to terminate") so the consolewindow will wait before
> disappearing.
>
> Alex

Danger Will Robinson!

If your program has a syntax error, the rawinput hack won't help with the
flashing console problem.  Check out your program in PythonWin or IDLE first
before diving headfirst into the Windows swamp.