First program

[Alister]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:04:02 +0000, Phil H wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:03:43 +0000, Phil H wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Trying my hand with Python but have had a small hiccup. Reading  'A
>> byte of Python' and created helloworld.py as directed.
>><snip>
>> Any help appreciated
>> Phil
> 
> Thanks Peter & Chris for your prompt replies. The line ending was the
> problem.
> The script was written using Gedit on Ubuntu. Cannot find a setting in
> Gedit to set the line ending but it must be there somewhere so will keep
> looking. Also how do you see or check the line endings of a file?
> 
> Thanks again
> Phil

You may want to try installing geany from your package manager, it is a 
pretty good but lightweight editor for programming with syntax 
highlighting & the option to replace tabs/spaces as req
it also handles html,php, ruby & a whole host of others.

before I found geany I also used bluefish which is probably more 
sophisticated but not as lightweight.



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