Error running any script in IDLE

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:16 AM,  <mattgraves7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Im fairly new to Python. I was trying to run a script using IDLE and it came back with an error and immediately shut down. After this, every script I tried to test within IDLE would do the same. I wrote the following script:
>
> while True
>     x = input("test")
>
> It seems simple enough to not be screwed up in any way, but when I hit F5 to test, it gets red text and shuts down IDLE. It scrolls too fast to see before shutting down, but I right clicked the text quickly to pause it. This is what it comes back with:
> http://s21.postimg.org/4so8merdz/asdfg.png
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on, and why this error comes up regardless of what script I try to run in IDLE?

It looks like you've made a module called 'random.py', which is
shadowing the standard library 'random' module. In that file, you
appear to have line numbers - note how line 42 is prefixed with the
actual number 42 - and that's causing syntax errors deep inside IDLE.
Try renaming or deleting your random.py to see if that fixes it.

ChrisA