I am out of trial and error again Lists

[Seymore4Head]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:42:43 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody
<rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:39:32 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 23/10/2014 08:56, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Mark Lawrence  wrote:
>> >> If you were to read and digest what is written it would help.  You're trying
>> >> to run IDLE.  We're talking the interactive interpreter.
>> >
>> > IDLE includes the interactive interpreter.
>> >
>> >>   If (at least on
>> >> Windows) you run a command prompt and then type python<cr> you should see
>> >> something like this.
>> >>
>> >> Python 3.4.2 (v3.4.2:ab2c023a9432, Oct  6 2014, 22:16:31) [MSC v.1600 64 bit
>> >> (AMD64)] on win32
>> >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >
>> > Same thing comes up when I start IDLE, so what's your point?
>> >
>> 
>> When you run the interactive interpreter thats all you get.  The OP 
>> isn't the first person to try things with IDLE not realising you need to 
>> have a script loaded to do something.
>
>If I do (at the shell prompt with an example)
>$ python3
>Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct  8 2014, 10:45:20) 
>[GCC 4.9.1] on linux
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> 2+3
>5
>
>And if I do
>$ idle3
>I get a new window containing
>
>Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct  8 2014, 10:45:20) 
>[GCC 4.9.1] on linux
>Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>>> 2+3
>5
>
>so...
>Still not clear whats your point.
>idle and python interpreter seem to be mostly the same
>
>[As best as I can make out the OP is not using the standalone
>interpreter
>nor idle
>nor (the many options like) python-interpreter-inside-emacs
>nor ipython
>nor ...
>]
I don't know the difference, yet.  I am gonna get around to reading
the Internet one of these days.
:)