n00b problem with an editor

[WIlfred86]

Hello everybody,

I just started to learn Python, and I am using the PythonWin editor from Activestate to write code.

Maybe this is a silly question, but when I want to write for example:

print "Hello"
print "Helloagain"

it only prints the first line, because when I press return to go to the next line, it executes the first print command.

Is there some way to bypass this, without resorting to writing this code in a "normal text" editor, save it, and then execute it? I like this realtime way of seeing what my code does.

Best regards,

Wilfred

[CallBackGuy]

Hello everybody,

I just started to learn Python, and I am using the PythonWin editor from Activestate to write code.

Maybe this is a silly question, but when I want to write for example:

print "Hello"
print "Helloagain"

it only prints the first line, because when I press return to go to the next line, it executes the first print command.

Is there some way to bypass this, without resorting to writing this code in a "normal text" editor, save it, and then execute it? I like this realtime way of seeing what my code does.

Best regards,

Wilfred

I think functions is what you're looking for.

def hello():
    print "Hello"
    print "Helloagain" 

And then just type the function name to run it

hello() 

penzilla.net/tutorials/python/functions/

[WIlfred86]

CallBackGuy, thank you for your fast reply. However, I was more specifically referring to an example in a book wich I encountered (I'm sorry I didn't mentioned that earlier).

I am learning Python now from an ebook called "How to think like a computer scientist - learning with python"

In some of the examples in the book you make this function first:

def newLine():
print 

Then you have to write something like:

print "1st Line"
newLine()
print "2nd Line" 

When I want to write this text "realtime" it executes only "1st Line". Maybe this is normal, but I wanted to make sure (if) there is some way of dealing with this, for example a special key-combination to prevent the code executing immediately.

By the way, I'm making progress now. I am now learning the and or if then operators. I even made myself an infinite loop by accident (a function that called itself)

Best regards, and thank you for your help,

Wilfred

[v0id]

Normally would the line in the function you showed us just print a blank line, and should not wait for input. I have never stumbled upon the behavior you describe with the print-statement. I know this isn't the advice you hoped to get, but I suggest you to see if something's wrong with your interpreter, as that isn't normal behavior.

[Tynach]

Use \n.

print "Hello\nHelloagain" 

\n is the newline character, and it will interpret it as making everything after it appear on a new line. You don't need spaces around it or anything, just put it in there. Yes, it looks weird.

Edit 1: I read your other post about the function. That function is stupid, honestly, as you could do this:

print "Hello\n\nHelloagain" 

to get the empty line in the middle. Or, more traditionally (and not using a realtime interpreter), to do this:

print "Hello\n"
print "Helloagain" 

By the way, in Windows, you can just run a Python script by double-clicking the .py file. Though, if it's something like above, it runs and exits quickly. So, just put raw_input() at the end:

print "Hello\n"
print "Helloagain"
raw_input() 

Save that in a text file, probably named hello.py, and double-click the hello.py file.

Two text editors I recommend are Notepad++ and Kate.

Edit 2: to make the function:

def newline():
    print

print "Hello"
newline()
print "Helloagain"
raw_input() 

The raw_input really waits for you to type something and press Enter. That's why I put it in there.