COMP 200 Elements of Computer Science &
COMP 130 Elements of Algorithms and Computation
Spring 2012

[Rice University]

Taking Enthought IDLE for a spin

  1. Open up IDLE (Enthought/IDLE from Windows' Start Menu or MacOS' Applications), and you will see the IDLE shell window come up.

    IDLE shell

  2. Select New from the File menubar item on top, and a new editor window will open as follows.

    IDLE editor

  3. Type in print "Hello, world!".

    Hello world.

  4. Select the Save As option from the File menu on the top toolbar of the editor window, and save this file as hello.py in your course folder.

    hello.py

  5. Go back to the editor window and choose the Run Module option from the Run menu bar item on the top.

    Running

  6. Python prints Hello world! as requested. That's all you need to do to open/create, edit, and run your files!