Okay, so warning first, I have absolutely no programming experience and some (most) of my questions are totally going to betray that. To run a script, you have to save it, but whenever I save my scripts it loses all color formatting. Why does it do that? I've tried going to "configure IDLE" and selecting highlighting, but it doesn't help.

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Okay, so warning first, I have absolutely no programming experience and some (most) of my questions are totally going to betray that.  To run a script, you have to save it, but whenever I save my scripts it loses all color formatting.  Why does it do that?  I've tried going to "configure IDLE" and selecting highlighting, but it doesn't help.

anonymous · Answer

when you save file then close it and open again saved file still no colors?

anonymous · Answer

Right.  The colors completely disappear whenever I save it

anonymous · Answer

what is the name you are saving your file? does it end with .py?

anonymous · Answer

Yea!  I'm saving it as a Python file.  Interestingly though, when I go to open it (and I've saved multiple scripts at this point) none of them show up as *.py.  They all show up as *.*

anonymous · Answer

do you add .py by hand? :D

anonymous · Answer

Oh it worked!!  Thank you so much!

anonymous · Answer

i told you :P

anonymous · Answer

Haha, yes you did!