[TriLUG] Portable Python [ Was Re: booting an external disk with grub 0.97 ]

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Lance A. Brown via TriLUG wrote:

> Call me nuts, but I'm running Python just fine using Portable Python 
> 2.7.6.1 on my Windows 8.1 Lenovo Carbon X1.  Even comes with PyCharm and 
> most useful python modules preinstalled.  Is there a specific reason to 
> run linux?
>
> http://portablepython.com/

OK have it installed on a flash drive. I tried a one liner

print "hello world"

and ran it in a DOS box according to

http://portablepython.com/doc/2.7/hello-world/

using the command (approximately)

e:\portable_python\portable_python.exe hello_world.py

I'm expecting to see "hello world" printed on the next line. Instead a new DOS 
box appears and then closes without me seeing anything. If I have the program 
wait for input by adding another line

raw_input ("foo")

the new DOS box doesn't close and I see the line "hello world" followed by 
another line "foo".

Is there a way to display the output to the screen and then return to the 
prompt, leaving the output of the program on the screen, as you would in unix?

Thanks Joe

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