Question

I finally found IDLE (Thank you vt_kick). But whenever I hit enter to go to another line of code, it runs the code on that line. I tried "indenting" the code by adding 2 #s infront of it but I was unable to delete that afterward & couldn't run the code. Does anyone know how to insert multiple lines of code before running it?

Answer 1

It sounds like you are working in the 'Python Shell' itself, where the code is executed. You need to open a text editor file to write a block of code. Go to the file menu on the shell and open a new window. Be sure to save the file as a '.py'. I found that if I didn't do this it would save it as as simple text file, and the Python context colors would not show up.

Answer 2

The Python shell always has a little >>> at the beginning of the code you are writing while the editor does not. vt_kick is correct you sound like you are in the shell.

Answer 3

I think if you go to File/New window (Ctrl+N) you can write all your code there, and then, you go to Run/Run module (F5)

Answer 4

str1 = "this is string example....wow!!!";
str2 = "exam";

print (str1.find(str2))
print (str1.find(str2, 10))
print (str1.find(str2, 40))

save this file with a name and see if it attaches a py to it.
if you can run this successfully you are in business.

output:
>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>>
15
15
-1