An absolute Newbie question

[Brian van den Broek]

wpog said unto the world upon 10/07/2005 12:41:
> 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

Take a look at <http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/>.

But the quick answer:

Launch IDLE.
File Menu -> New Window
Type away. (Be sure to explicitly save with the py or pyw extension, 
as IDLE does not add it for you.)

HTH,

Brian vdB