understanding color coding the book doesn' show the color coding that you see when you type help)but you can see it in the editor color coding lets you see commands with greater ease and differentiate commands from other sorts of text press enter to get out of help mode as with the command-line versionyou see descriptive text each time you perform an action nowtype print('this is some text 'and press enter you see the expected outputjust as you normally would (see figure - notice the color codingthough the print(command is in purple text to show that it' command the text within the print(command is green to show that it' data and not command the output is shown in blue the color coding makes things lot easierwhich is just one of many reasons that using idle is easier than using the command line figure - with color codingyou can easily determine the use for each kind of text in an application