What Does "== Restart ==" In The Idle Shell Mean?

I have a simple script I wrote, and when trying to run it (F5) , I get this msg: ================== RESTART: C:\Users\***\Desktop\tst.py ================== I restarted the shell,

Solution 1:

I have a simple script I wrote, and when trying to run it (F5)

That's the hotkey for IDLE to run a file. It is not ordering to do anything. It's a log statement to explicitly declare that your namespace is being cleared and the file is going to be ran fresh again.

no, I didn't tell it to restart

But you did... You pressed F5

Solution 2:

The same thing is happening with my shell. In the older versions, this does not happen. I've also noticed that when I press Python 3.5.2 Module Docs, I have my Internet browser open up and I see my directory being displayed onscreen. It looks like:

C:\Users\mycomputername\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\DLLs.

Is that suppose to happen? Is that secured? I don't know.

I've also found that this prints out whenever I "imported" something. So if I use an import command, and put it right before the line of my random name, it will print out that "RESTART" thing. It's always at the beginning. Or what it reads as the beginning.

Solution 3:

CIsForCookies, my guess is that you don't actually have a complete script; maybe you have just a function definition and you haven't included a line to run that function. (I had this problem and then remembered to call the function I defined; the problem went away.)

Solution 4:

You may have made the same mistake as me and ran a program and then you wonder why RESTART is all that shows up. My program was working perfectly I just did not print anything or ask for any input so it ran and was done with the program and nothing showed up.