why does python execute line bye line as im coding?????????

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:37, Andy Jewell wrote:
> On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 10:21 pm, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > Cliff Wells wrote:
> > > entire program and execute it all at once, you need to use a text editor
> > > (preferably emacs) to create the file (something like "myprogram.py")
> > > and then use the command "python myprogram.py" to run it.
> >
> > <silence>
> 
> DOS edlin.com works just as well, as long as you can put up with the
> following:
> 
> 1) Having DOS installed
> 2) Short (8.3) file names
> 3) An archaic line-based interface
> 4) A 64K file size limit
> 5) ....

Many of these (except for 3, of course) can be addressed by using ed
rather than edlin:

http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-1998-07/msg00246.html

If only it had a python mode...

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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