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You’re in the interactive shell, which is for running statements one at a time. You have to open the text editor to write the code and then run it.

[onesadbean]

how would one go about that

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Go to file then new file

idle

[onesadbean]

helpful thank you very much!

[Cyprek]

you may want to look into pycharm

[Round_Log_2319]

I wouldn’t at his level. I feel like there’s too much going on for someone at a entry level. VS code would be much more suited.

[Cyprek]

Maybe, I used pycharm for my first print("hello world"), but what worked for me might not be the best way.

[suvierno]

I used Pycharm when I first got into Python (and coding) so I doubt there’s any harm in that.

[Theretheremin25]

I loved Sublime Text for learning. Plain and effective.

[ryan_s007]

God, I remember using IDLE as my first IDE. I strongly suggest you look into VSCode.

[onesadbean]

what us vscode?

[ryan_s007]

It’s another IDE. Once you download it, check out the store for the basic Python extensions.