[Tutor] How to run a Python program under Windows. bgailer at
gmail.com Tue Jul 29 18:13:23 CEST 2008 Morgan Thorpe wrote: >
I'm am very new to the whole programming sence. > I am trying to
catch on but as soon as i want to write a program i've > been
told to use like 'notepad' in windows XP and save it as a .py
file > i have gotten this far. Am i wrong so far? No. There are
also IDEs such as IDLE and Python For Windows that make
development easier (for many of us). > If i am right why is it
that i can't run it in anyway besides it > opening in 'notepad'
i've tried opening with Python but it doesn't work. Now comes
the art of asking good (effective) questions. 1 - provide a
subject (as I did) 2 - tell us what you tried (opening with
Python is too vague) Example "At the command prompt I entered
"c:\\python25\\python test.py" 3 - tell us what happened.
Example "I got the message "'python' is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch 4 -
reply to the list. Those are just exampl