Re: [Tutor] PYTHON ON DOS

2008-11-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Lie Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote strictly speaking Windows doesn't have true DOS since NT-family. The black window is a command prompt, somewhat an emulator for DOS. Being picky CMD is an enhanced version of the DOS COMMAND program. It doesn't emulate DOS as such but it runs a backwardly

Re: [Tutor] PYTHON ON DOS

2008-11-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"WM." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Some say that Python programs run better on DOS. What they mean is running python scripts within a command window (aka DOS box). (You can run Python under real 16 bit DOS but its slow and clunky, don't do it unless you really must!) You can start a comma

Re: [Tutor] PYTHON ON DOS

2008-11-14 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, WM. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some say that Python programs run better on DOS. I cannot find a way to do > that. I can go 'Python Command Line' to wind up on a black screen version > of IDLE but I can't get from the interactive to executive mode. > > Is there a

Re: [Tutor] PYTHON ON DOS

2008-11-14 Thread Lie Ryan
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:27:59 -0800, WM. wrote: > Some say that Python programs run better on DOS. I cannot find a way to > do that. I can go 'Python Command Line' to wind up on a black screen > version of IDLE but I can't get from the interactive to executive mode. > > Is there any advantage to

[Tutor] PYTHON ON DOS

2008-11-14 Thread WM.
Some say that Python programs run better on DOS. I cannot find a way to do that. I can go 'Python Command Line' to wind up on a black screen version of IDLE but I can't get from the interactive to executive mode. Is there any advantage to running .py on DOS? __