Really dumb question!

[Steve Holden]

"Mike Silva" <snarflemike at yahoo.com> wrote ...
> "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote ...
> > "Manuel M. Garcia" <mail at manuelmgarcia.com> wrote ...
> > >
> > > !!From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au]
> > > !!Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2002 2:20 PM
> > > !!To: Blair Hall
> > > !!Subject: RE: [python-win32] Stopping a program in PythonWin?
> > > !!
> > > !!Right-click on the Pythonwin icon in the taskbar, and select "Break
> > > !!into running code"
> > > !!
> > > !!Mark.
> > >
> > > I was a little confused about this advice, until I realized he was
> > > talking about the Pythonwin icon that appears in the taskbar tray
> > > (usually in the lower right, next to the clock)
> > >
> >
> > I love it when people save time by using Google. Good that you reported
back
> > to the group, too!
> >
> > Mike: this should do what you want, I think. I had overlooked the fact
that
> > you are using PythonWin, sorry.
>
> I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't clear.  We've got version 2.2.2 on a
> Windows machine and are running it via Idle 0.8.  I don't know what
> PythonWin is (but I'll look it up).  I don't have the icon you speak
> of.  If PythonWin is the recommended way to run Python on Windows (as
> opposed to Idle), then I'll go ahead and set that up.
> >
PythonWin is a good environment, but it's by no means necessary for
existence on Windows. Having sais which, it brings so much good stuff with
it I normally just put the latest ActivePython distribution on a new Windows
machine. See www.activestate.com for the distribution.

Idle is a perfectly acceptable substitute, except I don't know how to break
in to an executing program on *that* :-)

> > Hope your son enjoys turtling!
>
> Last night we plotted some straight-line images right out of his math
> book assignments, then we changed their sizes and colors and
> orientations by changing a few constants in the display code.  Very
> cool!
>
> It's also interesting to me as Python is my first non-statically-typed
> language.  Very loosey-goosey!  Not bad, just different!
>
I've always liked dynamic typing, ever since SNOBOL 4 and (later) Icon.
Enjoy!!

regards
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