[Tutor] Newbie question

[Hans Dushanthakumar]

A short-cut if you dont want to use DOS to traverse to your directory or
if you are feeling too lazy to type in the entire path & script name.
 
You can right-click on the script file in the Windows explorer and
choose "Send to -> Command prompt". This opens a command prompt with the
path already set to the one that you want, and the name of the script
already typed in. Now, just cursor to the left untill you reach the ">"
prompt and type in "python ". So now your command prompt reads
"C:\whatever path>python yourfile.py". Press enter to run the script.

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From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of bob
Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:44 a.m.
To: Liam Clarke-Hutchinson; 'Douglass, Erik'; 'tutor at python.org'
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Newbie question


At 12:20 PM 11/22/2005, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson wrote:


	Hi Eric, 
	 
	Either - 
	 
	add this line to the end of your scripts -
	discard = raw_input("Press enter to finish.")
	 
	Or - 
	 
	Click on Start > Run... type cmd.exe and use DOS to move to the
directory where your scripts are stored and run them via Python there.


This is preferred, since any exception traceback will remain visible.



	 It's not trivial when you're starting. :-)
	 
	Regards, 
	
	Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
	
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<mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org> ] On Behalf Of Douglass, Erik
	Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2005 3:03 a.m.
	To: tutor at python.org
	Subject: [Tutor] Newbie question
	
	

		I am trying to follow some online first timer tutorials,
and I am writing the practice scripts in notepad (only w32 at work
:-()..   I save the script with a .py extension, and when I run it it
opens for a brief moment in a command prompt then closes before I even
have a chance to see what it says.  This may seem trivial, but Python
also happens to be my first language so this is all new to me.    Using
Python 2.4.2
		
		
		
		
		  
		Thanks for any help.
		
		
		
		
		  
		Erik
		
		

	 
	
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