IDLE vs Command Line

[Tom B.]

"Jesse B." <jburns131 at adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:8PidncxTb4muxITcRVn-oQ at adelphia.com...
> I like to work with xemacs, so I've been coding modules with xemacs and
> running them using the dos prompt (using windows port of xemacs). Some
> scripts that work fine with IDLE don't work at the dos prompt. For
example:
>
> import random
>
> for i in range(10):
>     x = random.random()
>     print x
>
> This simple script doesn't work if  I use the command prompt, with this
> syntax: python random.py
>
> I am just wondering why that is.
>
 It is running the copy of random.py from the python lib not your random.py

Tom

P.S. it is not trying to import itself!