Re: [Tutor] different behaviour in Idle shell vs Mac terminal

2012-01-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Adam Gold wrote: Thanks Steven that worked. In terms of why I'm using this: I shouldn't overstate what I'm doing when I say financial maths. One of the elements is a mortgage calculator for my mother who's, shall we say, not a "power user". After taking the basic inputs, it prints out a few s

Re: [Tutor] different behaviour in Idle shell vs Mac terminal

2012-01-09 Thread Adam Gold
> > P.S. if it's relevant, this is part of a simple financial maths program and > it's used to display the results after certain inputs have been gathered. > > > ------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:56:29 +1100 > From:

Re: [Tutor] different behaviour in Idle shell vs Mac terminal

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Otten
Alan Gauld wrote: > On 08/01/12 23:34, Adam Gold wrote: >> >> I have short piece of code I'm using to print a string to > > the terminal one letter at a time. It works fine when >> I invoke the script from within Idle; each letter appears >> afterthe preceding one according to the designated tim

Re: [Tutor] different behaviour in Idle shell vs Mac terminal

2012-01-08 Thread Alan Gauld
On 08/01/12 23:34, Adam Gold wrote: I have short piece of code I'm using to print a string to > the terminal one letter at a time. It works fine when I invoke the script from within Idle; each letter appears afterthe preceding one according to the designated time > interval. > However if I r

Re: [Tutor] different behaviour in Idle shell vs Mac terminal

2012-01-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Adam Gold wrote: I have short piece of code I'm using to print a string to the terminal one letter at a time. It works fine when I invoke the script from within Idle; each letter appears after the preceding one according to the designated time interval. However if I run it in the Mac termina