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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Python information and short questions megathread.
 
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Ishmael
May 31, 2006
 Why is that once I run a script in IDLE the text highlighting disappears? Is there any way I can turn it on again?

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Ishmael
May 31, 2006

duck monster posted:


Hey, if you get a chance, play with iPython. Its loving wonderful. If you run it on windows, be sure to set up Readline libs, but if you do its amazing, and if there was a way of making it work inside of idle, it'd make idle into gods own python environ. (Well, if I could get idle running as the shell in eclipse python, I'd probably consider that it).

Wow, I'm just starting out here and iPython is so over my head. It sure looks pretty though.

Yeah, I've realized that I don't even need to run the script in IDLE, it goes black and white even if I save.

I have no idea what is going but I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point.

Edit: figured it out... I assumed that IDLE was saving every file as *.py without me having to type in the file extension. I most definitely do have to add the file extension, at least in windows.

Ishmael fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Feb 19, 2008

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