Question

This is kind of trivial, but whenever I run my program, all the commands etc. lose their 'color coding,' and become black. When the professors run their programs on the screen, they still have their color. Does anyone know how this is different?

Answer 1

http://screencast.com/t/MTrBO0BfdlSC

This might not help, but you can check your setup here, will take about a minute to watch.

Answer 2

If you are using IDLE and running your modules using F5, when asked to save you have to include the .py extension for the filename. If you don't IDLE won't 'do' the syntax highlighting.

To expand on Joz's tut, you can use the shell to do quick 'prototyping' - you can type commands or functions and tests methods on different types and get instant feedback - you can try things out in the shell to see if what you are trying to do will work before you include it in your 'module'.

Answer 3

i have the problem too...gonna try the solutions now :)
thanks u guys :)