The text editor approach

The command-line tool is useful for test coding logic, but it is neither practical nor elegant to write code using the interactive tool. It is easier to write a bunch of code at a time and test it. Let's repeat the same example using IDLE's text editor:

1. Launch IDLE's text editor (in IDLE, File | New File), enter the hello world line discussed in the previous section and save it as helloworld.py.
2. Now, the code could be executed by either pressing the F5 key or clicking on Run Module from the drop-down menu Run, and you will get the output as shown in the following figure: