Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-18 Thread Karen Palen
yan > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE > To: tutor@python.org > Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:20 AM > Luke Paireepinart wrote: > > So the problem is that the stdout of the "ls" command > is appearing in > > some locat

Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Karen Palen wrote: WOW! Thanks for the detailed explanation! Sure thing, putting off doing homework so... This was about what I had expected so it is no surprise. My conclusion (so far) is that there is not much to gain from an IDE in this situation and a lot of complexity to deal with.

Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-18 Thread Lie Ryan
Luke Paireepinart wrote: > So the problem is that the stdout of the "ls" command is appearing in > some location that you cannot see. > As for ways to remedy this - I don't know. The idea here, though, is > that even though the regular Python version has the side-effect that it > outputs it in the

Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-17 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Karen Palen wrote: Which appears to be merely the return code, not the stdout! It looks like I need to set some variable in IDLE, but I can't figure out exactly what is needed here. Can anyone point me to an answer? Well, Karen, according to my IDLE (admittedly it's 2.6 not 3.0 so it may

[Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-17 Thread Karen Palen
I am an experienced C/C++/C# programmer who is just starting out with Python. My first attempt at IDLE worked great with the tutorial, but seems to have a problem with my first real app! I am trying to get the Python subprocess/Popen module working with the example from the Python 3 documentat