Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution

[Rotwang]

On 06/08/2012 02:01, Matthew Barnett wrote:
> On 06/08/2012 01:58, MRAB wrote:
>> On 06/08/2012 01:09, Rotwang wrote:
>>> On 06/08/2012 00:46, PeterSo wrote:
>>>> I am just starting to learn Python, and I like to use the editor
>>>> instead of the interactive shell. So I wrote the following little
>>>> program in IDLE
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>> I don't know what editor you're using or how it works, but I'm guessing
>>> that pressing f5 runs what you've written as a script, right? In that
>>> case the interpreter doesn't automatically print the result of
>>> expressions in the same way that the interactive interpreter does; you
>>> didn't tell it to print anything, so it didn't.
>>>
>> It looks like it's IDLE.
>
> Actually, he does say that it's IDLE at the start.
> [snip]

Doh! Not sure how I missed that, sorry.

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