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starting to code

Prepare and run your code

The next step is to prepare your program code for execution. To do this, If you choose File → Save
select File → Save from the menu to save your program code to a file. from the menu, you can save
Choose an appropriate name for your program. your code in a file.

Python program
filenames usually
end with “.py".

Click the Save button to
create and save the file.
Python programs are usually saved in files that end with .py, so let’s call
this program game.py.
It doesn’t really matter to IDLE which directory you save the file in. Some
coders like to create special directories for each new programming project.
But for now, just save the code in some directory that’s easy to remember.

Now, let’s see what happens when we run the program.

In the IDLE edit window,
go to the “Run" menu and
choose “Run Module."

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