Question

I am using IDLE on a Mac (10.9.5). How do I save my script for it to use the shell? Every time I run it (f5), it will run once, but my script will become a text document and wont run again. I tried saving it as a .py file but that didn't work either. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I did a quick test, and as long as the Python file is called as an argument of the Python interpreter, which is what it looks like IDLE does, it runs okay:

python foo.py

If you want the file to be executable, you need to add, as the first line:

#!/usr/bin/python

and make the file permissions allow execution:

chmod +x foo.py

Then if you're in the same directory, you can run it with:

./foo.py

You can learn more about chmod by doing:

man chmod

Answer 2

Yeah, I am having same problems the sample programs wont run on my windows 8 laptop.
I am using execfile('C:/Users/iram/Downloads/lec03.py')