[newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

[Jean Dupont]

Op maandag 20 januari 2014 10:17:15 UTC+1 schreef 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? 
I don't know yet, but I just wanted to try out which of the following three I'd like best:
1. idle+leafpad
2. idle+geany
3. plain geany

It's normal for a newbie to start with (1) as that is the default on raspbian,
however I still don't understand why (2) does not work...

kind regards,
jean