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Mon Feb 10 15:47:45 EST 2014

On 2014年02月10日, Walter Hughey <wkhughey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apple does install a version of Python, normally a somewhat older
> version. My computer has 2.5 and 2.6 installed and I have opened it
> and inserted code that works. I do need a way to write the code, test
> it, and then save a copy to turn in for the assignment. I was not
> aware that a normal text editor would work. I shall definitely look
> at that later today.

Can't you just use <whatever> to edit a Python source file and then 
run it like you do on other Unix systems?
 $ emacs myprog.py
or
 $ vi myprog.py
or
 $ <myeditor> myprog.py

then
 $ python myprog.py
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