An absolute Newbie question

[wpog]

Hello,

I have a question about using "IDLE", and that is whenever I start write my  
own program in the "Python Shell" it will automatically execute whatever 
command I have written, for example: >>> print 'Hello World"

So, how to I get it to not execute, so that I can write a program that has 
ordinary executable functions, and stuff like that?

I do have some experience with Turbo Pascal, and so I'm hoping that this 
will be an even easier language to learn, and thus far it does seem so, but 
I need to get past this first;-).

Thanks in advance,

wpog