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Please help!
IDLE color codes only the shell, not the open files! How can I solve
this?

Nov 5 '07 #1
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On Nov 5, 12:33 pm, "ram.rac...@gma il.com" <ram.rac...@gma il.com>
wrote:
Please help!
IDLE color codes only the shell, not the open files! How can I solve
this?
My first guess is that idle is opening files without the .py
extension. If that isn't it, what operating system are you using?
What version of python and idle are you using?

James Howard

Nov 5 '07 #2
On Nov 5, 9:41 pm, JamesHoward <James.w.How... @gmail.comwrote :
On Nov 5, 12:33 pm, "ram.rac...@gma il.com" <ram.rac...@gma il.com>
wrote:
Please help!
IDLE color codes only the shell, not the open files! How can I solve
this?

My first guess is that idle is opening files without the .py
extension. If that isn't it, what operating system are you using?
What version of python and idle are you using?

James Howard
Thank you James, from the bottom of my heart :)

Now I just need to get around to controlling pygame...

Nov 5 '07 #3

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