IDLE3 on Ubuntu

Chris K writes (excerpted):

I'm teaching myself and home educating my three young daughters at the same time. Just a little bit every day (excepting Sunday which is entirely reserved for pancakes and not inter-computery-things) . Thank you for providing the opportunity for me to introduce the ...

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Modified IDLE

Dean B writes:

I’m on page 137 of your book Python For Kids (chapter 10). I noticed a sentence at the top of the page, and have a question on it. It says “This won’t work if you’re using the modified version of IDLE that we set up in Chapter 1.” I didn’t remember seeing anything *in chapter 1...

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Deprecated switch

Sandy S writes:

I just purchased 3 copies of “Python for Kids” so that my 2 sons and I can begin our quest! Anyway I hate to bug you with this but we just downloaded the latest version of the Python suite and the –n switch for IDLE startup has a message about “being deprecated since version ...

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Multiple statements found

Arijjan V writes (excerpted):

When I enter code into the compiler I continue to get multiple statement error messages. *Even if I copy the code from the book.

I use Idle 34 on windows professional 7. This is what I typed into the Idle Shell.

found_coins = 20 magic_coins = 70 stolen_coins =...

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Python 3.4 shell

Kirk K writes:

On page 12 it says File>New Window but I cannot find it on our Windows version 3.4.1. Please advise.

It looks like, as of Python 3.4, they’ve changed the menu, so File->New Window has become File->New File (which makes the Shell consistent with other text editors, at least). I...

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