Contrast with executing a machine language program from beginning to end, or "script mode" in the case of an interpreted language run start to finish. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Printing large amounts of text from a script ... with a Python program in IDLE. IDLE has a few immediate conveniences. It sports a built-in read-eval-print loop (REPL), or interactive console ...

If all this sounds a little too much, it also has a minimalist 'zen mode ... Python interpreter and debugger, project and file explorer, as well as the ability to customize and run a Python script ...