Re: [pygame] New User

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonah wrote:
> Hey- I'm REALLY new to Python, pygame, and programming in general. I 
> did the line-by-line chimp example, and I think I understand, but I 
> can't run it.
Did you try downloading their version of chimp and running it?
> It wrote it in IDLE. Is that a problem?

You mean 'I wrote it in IDLE'?
I'm not trying to be a smartass.
That's what you meant, though, right?
Writing it in IDLE is the same as writing it in notepad, or anything else.
It's just a text editor until you hit 'run program'
and that's where it matters: where you execute the program from,
because of differences in IDEs.
The biggest difference in IDLE is that it doesn't always run the scripts 
in a subprocess, so if the script
crashes, it crashes your IDE.

So give us some feedback.  Python loves you and it gives you detailed 
tracebacks whenever there's a problem.
You can give us those tracebacks  and we can tell you what went wrong!
Also, if you're really new, what are you doing not on the tutor mailing 
list!
Go subscribe right away, it's a fantastic mailing list.
Wii are here to help you.

HTH,
-Luke