A very, very newbie question :)

[The Jazz Singer]

I've been following through on several online Python tutorials- (I've
learned most of the MUD languages, HTML, DHTML, Java, JavaScript, and
some C); and it's really a lot of fun! This is the first real building
code that I've been doing, and it's going swimmingly.
I do, however, have a question. You see, I've
been putting my scripts on notepad, saving them as .py's, and opening
them, whenever I want to run them as a test. Well, it works fine. But
when I open it, it speeds through theprogram so fast that I don't even
get a chance to see it before it
closes (!)
Any words of wisdom?