[newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

[Alister]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:04:05 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote:

> Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 16:12:41 UTC+1 schreef Oscar Benjamin:
>> On 18 January 2014 14:52, Jean Dupont <jeandupont314 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks Peter and Terry Jan for the useful suggestions. One thing
>> > which I
>> >find a bit weird: when asking for Python-help concerning raspberry pi
>> >code
>> > or problems, a lot of people don't seem to be interested in helping
>> > out,
>> > that's of course their choice, but maybe they don't seem to be aware
>> > the raspberry pi is often the motivation for starting to learn to
>> > program in
>> >Python. And as such such a reaction is a bit disappointing.
>> Hi Jean,
>> What makes you say that? Did you previously ask questions about
>> Rasberry Pi code on this list?
> It was not about code but about python-coding in IDLE (that's the
> default on raspbian):
> I started a thread "[newbie] starting geany from within idle does not
> work" both here and in the raspberry pi forum. I just wondered why I
> never got an answer concerning that topic.
> 
>> If you did I wouldn't have answered those questions because I've never
>> used a Raspberry Pi and know nothing about them (except that they
>> encourage using Python somehow). I think that there's actually a list
>> that is specifically for Raspberry Pi Python questions that might be
>> more helpful although I don't know what it is...
> Here is the url to that forum
> 
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/
> 
> kind regards,
> jean

Personally  use Geany  stand alone and not under idle, pressing F5 should 
save & run the code you are currently editing. Would running under idle 
give any other benefits? 



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