Python scripts wont run - HELP

[windozbloz]

Bye Bye Billy Bob...

Hello All,
I'm a fairly literate windoz amateur programmer mostly in visual basic. I
have switched to SuSE 9.2 Pro and am trying to quickly come up to speed
with Python 2.3.4.  I can run three or four line scripts from the command
line but have not been able to execute a script from a file.  

I have used EMACS and JEDIT to create small test routines.  I would right
click the file and set properties to executable.  I would then click the
icon, the bouncy ball would do its thing then a dialog box would flash on
the screen for a fraction of a second.  I could tell it had a progress bar
on it but could not catch anything else on it.  Then nothing else would
happen.

If I could execute a script the world would once again be my playground...
PLEASE HELP.



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