Oct-26-2020, 01:53 PM
(Oct-24-2020, 09:14 PM)jefsummers Wrote: IDLE _should_ behave better than that. However, if you check around most developers leave IDLE early in learning Python for a better development environment.
My suggestion is to download and install Anaconda. It includes the conda environment manager as well as Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook (for notebook environment programming, commonly used in AI) as well as Spyder (which I like) and the most popular development environment for Python, VSCode. There are Youtubes that do a nice job of telling you how to optimally set up VSCode for Python, and I can post links if you like.
Personally, at this point I use IDLE mainly as a fancy desktop calculator, but not for any serious development.
Thank you for your response. This is actually my first class and its over the midpoint of the semester so I'm not going to try download, configure and learn a new platform for this class, but will definitely try and set up something else for the next class. I have about a month off between classes so there should be plenty of time to get it done before the spring class starts. IDLE is what the professor uses and is used in all the recorded lecture materials.