why does idle say: ''SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement'', when i copy-paste one of your

Question

>>> i = 1
while i <=5:
print(i)
i = i + 1

print("Finished!")
SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement
>>> i = 1
while i <=5:
print(i)
i = i + 1
print("Finished!")

Answer 1

Thats a Python console buddy. There should be only 1 statement per line. You could write that code in an IDE and save it as .py and then run it in an interpreter so you could write multiple lines