[Tutor] Newbie question

[bob]

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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>From: tutor-bounces at python.org [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 L)..   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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