Question

HI everyone. How do I run a multi line program in IDLE shell interpreter ? I know I can ctrl+j to make a new line for starters....

Answer 1

When you type your program into IDLE, just hit F5 to run it.

Answer 2

in the shell select the New menu item from the File menu ... File|New
That will open and editor window where you can write multiline scripts/modules/programs
from within the editor window F5 will run the program and the results will be displayed in the shell window. - be sure to save the files with a .py extension.

Python modules/files are just plain text and any text editor will work, but you might as well just use the IDLE editor - it has syntax highliting and checking and code completion built in.

http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/execution.html
http://docs.python.org/2/library/idle.html

Answer 3

The IDLE shell interpreter will let you do multiline just by typing in the lines. However, that is problematic because if you make a mistake, it can be harder to fix. That is why bwCA is talking about saving it as a file and why both bwCA and eSpeX are talking about running that file with F5.

Answer 4

Thanks!