Thanks very much for your instructions. You've been very helpful indeed! I will (hopefully) stop asking so many questions now.

I am coming from learning to program Python with IDLE. It's a handy IDE for learning in but now I am getting into some heavier duty object orientated stuff I need a more integrated IDE. That is what brings me to Zeus.

What I am missing though is the interactive python shell that IDLE provides. I ...

That seems to work. Thanks.

If you are using Python 3.x then you will need to use this code:
print ("Hello world")

result = input("Enter a value: ")

print (result)

print ("Complete.....")
This code will only work for the Python 2.7.x version:
print "Hello world"

result = raw_input("Enter a value: ")

print result ...

In compiler options / command line I have put : c:\python33\python.exe "$fn" (I dont know what "$fn" is, it was there already so I left it.) That is my python directory. however Python loads and crashes immediately and I get this error :

Using document type compiler options....

Fatal Python error ...

That worked a treat, thank you very much!

I am new to Zeus , I hope it will make a good IDE for coding in Python. First thing I noticed that I would like to be able to customise is the syntax highlight colours.

Zeus is displaying both doc string comments (marked ''' ''') and # comments in the same colour. I use these different types of ...