We have been asked to save code under ps0.py, but I can't find a way to save anything on the python terminal, excepting under "Save windows as a group". Is this where I should save it?

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anonymous · Answer

windows? unix/linux? mac? other?

.py files are plain text files that can be written (and saved) with any text editor.  Have you been working in a shell (>>> prompt) and now you are trying to save what you have done?

bramas · Answer

I am working on a Mac OS X ver 10.6.8 and using the python terminal on which I have downloaded python 2.7.5  but when completing the code I cannot find a way to save it as instructed.

anonymous · Answer

I don't know about Macs.  But any text editor will do, preferable something with syntax highlighting.  I thought I saw the professors using IDLE on a Mac.  Did you have to install Python or did it come pre-loaded on the Mac?

bramas · Answer

Besides TextEdit which comes with the Mac, I have OpenOffice 3 Text doc

bramas · Answer

It came pre-loaded, but I updated it a little.

bramas · Answer

Okay. I have IDLE but not sure what this is, never used it, will find out

anonymous · Answer

http://www.python.org/getit/mac/tcltk/ A complete install should include IDLE - That's what I use (Windows) and it seems sufficient. But there are other full blown IDE's out there. Vim seems to be pretty popular amongst programmers - I used it for a couple of weeks and I started to like it bu went back to IDLE because of Vim's learning curve - i was being impatient

anonymous · Answer

http://docs.python.org/2.7/using/mac.html

anonymous · Answer

http://docs.python.org/2.7/using/mac.html#the-ide

bramas · Answer

Ok. Thanks. It seems the best thing to do is look up IDLE

anonymous · Answer

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8792044/how-do-i-launch-idle-the-development-environment-for-python-on-mac-os-10-7

anonymous · Answer

IDLE has two "parts" a shell window and an editing window - in windows you get to an editing window from the shell from the File menu.  In an editing window, you can execute your script with F5 - the results show up in the shell window.

bramas · Answer

Problem solved; working nicely with IDLE.