very newbie question

[Bertrand Geston]

Probably not saved at all !
Try this in Idle:
menu File - Save as (choose a pretty name ending by .py and click on button
Save)
Run
Read status bar if nothing happens !

"Tom Babbitt" <tbabbitt at commspeed.net> wrote in message
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> "ron nixon" <ron at ire.org> wrote in message
> news:61ff32e3.0203070659.28cf5e1c at posting.google.com...
> > I've got a script called snakes saved to my c: drive and I want to run
> > it from IDLE. By when I do file open and run script, I get an invalid
> > syntax message. Likewise if I write the script in IDLE and hit "run
> > script" it get a message saying that says "the buffer for Python Shell
> > is not saved. Please save it first." Soooo. With all that being said.
> > How do I save a script and then get python to execute it from IDLE(and
> > where in the documentation is this?)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> It's not clear why you want to run your program from IDLE, you mite want
to
> just run it with phython (ie 'c:\Python22\python snakes.py' (you could
need
> to rename the filename to *.py)).
>
> Tom Babbitt
>
>