[Eric] New to this, but a small problem?

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hello,

you should use the run/debug/... facility of the IDE. Your prompte will be 
shown in the Python console and you may enter your input there.

Detlev

Am Samstag, 3. März 2012, 16:08:36 schrieb Ima Afrotrap:
> (Sorry this is my third send, but I'm not seeing it on the list and not sure
> if it's even getting to where I'd sending it even though I'm getting no
> error messages)
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>   I'm trying to learn to program (on my own and online since I'm poor as
> dirt). <mutter>
> 
>   I got Eric running (version 4.5.0) with python 2.6.5 on my openSUSE 11.3
> system.
> 
>   Here's the problem:
> 
>   I did this small example in eric:
> 
> 
> print "Halt!"
> user_reply = raw_input("Who goes there? ")
> print "You may pass,", user_reply
> 
> 
>   I saved it as halt.py, then in the bottom of eric I clicked on the
> 'terminal' tab and typed in 'python halt.py' (w/out the quotes of course).
> I was *supposed* to get halted, and asked who goes there. Instead there is
> nothing, just a blinking cursor waiting for something. I entered my name
> for the heck of it and here's what I got:
> 
> 
> john at home:~> python halt.py
> john
> Halt!
> Who goes there? You may pass, john
> 
> 
>   If I open up a konsole (I use KDE), it works as expected and I'm told to
> halt and asked who goes there, I enter my name and I'm told I may pass.
> 
>   Is there something wrong with the 'terminal' part of eric? I even 'reset'
> everything to stock and it still does it. Is the 'terminal' not supposed to
> be used like konsole? Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong and a way
> to fix it so I don't have to have a konsole open *and* eric?
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>   John
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de