Newbie Question

[Gerrit Holl]

M5B schreef op maandag 26 mei om 23:48:04 +0000:
> I just started with Python, and have read through several books on the
> language. I installed Python 2.0 and PythonWin32.

I recommend to get Python 2.2 or Python 2.3. You can get it at
http://www.python.org/2.2.3/
http://www.python.org/2.3/

> In all of the things that I have read there does not seem to be a clear
> explanation of how to save a program to disk, or how to retrieve it either to
> run or to work on further at a later time.

A Python program consists of one of more files. You can edit a file with
any text editor: notepad, dos edit, vim, nedit, etc. When you are finished
editing the file, you can save it.

> When I simply try to save the program, it fails to show up in the folder to
> which I thought I had saved it.

Maybe you have not saved it at the right place. Have you tried to search
it using the find utility (I assume you use Windows)?

> When I try to retrieve it, it's not there. On
> one occasion it somehow got stored (correctly, I can only assume) but when I
> try to open it, it's not there, and when I click on its icon I get only a brief
> flash on a black screen, then nothing.

You need to make it executable, though I don't know how to do that ik windows.
Does the name end in .py?

> When am I doing wrong? Better, what should I be doing right? Help!

I'm not sure...

yours,
Gerrit.

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