problems when starting python

[barabba]

Hi,

this is driving me crazy !!!
if I create file containing print "hi" and name it test.pyw and then
click on it with the right button it says edit with IDLE but then
nothing happen when i click on this item.
If I double click on the file to run it...same...nothing happens !!!
why ????

I have python at home and it works fine but I have noticed that even
there IDLE starts fine if I run it from start | programs | IDLE but if
I start it from the program icon (c:\winnt\etc etc) it doesn't
start...why ????

Thank you
Barabba


"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message news:<ZQ5G7.4700$R43.750182 at newsb.telia.net>...
> "barabba" <barabba72 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I just started using python and have the following problem.
> > when i double-click the pythonw.exe the application does not start !!
> > Anybody knows why  ?
> 
> pythonw.exe is designed to let you run a python script without
> an associated console window.
> 
> to make something appear on the screen, you must 1) pass
> a script name to pythonw.exe, and 2) make sure that script
> creates a window (usually by using Tkinter or any other UI
> toolkit).
> 
> (you can get around (1) by using the extension ".pyw" instead
> of ".py", and clicking on the pyw file.  the following excerpt from
> o'reillys "python programming on win32" contains a little more info:
> 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/excerpts/chpt20/?page=2
> 
> :::
> 
> if you're just tinkering, use IDLE or fire up a command (MS-DOS)
> window, and run the interpreter from there:
> 
>     c:\mydir> python myscript.py
> 
> or
> 
>     c:\mydir> python
>     PythonWare 2.2b1 on win32
>     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>     >>> import mymodule
> 
> </F>