Appending an asterisk to the end of each line

[Seymore4Head]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:38:47 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Seymore4Head
><Seymore4Head at hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>> I am using XP and launching the program from another drive/folder than
>> the boot drive.
>>
>> The program has .py extension and the icon shows it is associated with
>> Python.
>>
>> I tried "start run" and then typed python and it did show the dos box
>> with c:\python34/python.exe and the python shell.
>
>Okay. Step 1: Get a better operating system than Windows XP. Either
>upgrade to a newer version of Windows, or (my recommended option)
>switch to something like Debian Linux.
>
>Step 2, whether or not you do step 1: Become familiar with the command
>line. If you're staying with Windows, that means Start, Run, cmd.exe.
>Run your program from the terminal, and (this is the most important
>part) *copy and paste* its output into your next email asking for
>help. My suspicion is that your script is terminating with an
>exception somewhere, and you're not seeing it because the Windows
>association system gives you a Python that comes up and then
>disappears promptly when the program terminates.
>
>Step 3: If the above hasn't trivially solved your problem, now it's
>time for actual debugging work. Pepper your code with print() calls,
>showing the values of various things, until you figure out what's
>going on.
>
>Have fun!
>
>ChrisA

Thanks for the suggestions.