CMPT 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Text Editor

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Computing Science
• Course: CMPT 120
• Professor: Liaqat Ali

Document Summary

You can start up python and start typing in python code. It will be executed immediately, and you will see the results. Can also type python code into a file and save it. Then, you can run it all at once. The interactive interpreter is generally used for exploring the language or testing ideas. Python code in a file can be run as an application and even double-clicked to run your program. When you start the python interpreter, you"ll see something like this: Whenever you see it in the interpreter, you can type python commands. When you press return, the command will be executed and you will be shown the result. Here"s what it looks like in the python interpreter: The stuff after the prompt is the first line of python code you have seen. You could have also typed it into a text editor, named the file hello. py and run it.