title: Command prompt returning blank, but python console doesn't
body: <p>Sorry if the title is a bit confusing; I'm not sure how to phrase it.  I'm a beginner learning python for a linguistics course I'm taking, and I'm having a bit of a problem transferring some scripts into the command prompt.  I'm using Windows 8.1 and python 3.6.0, if that helps at all.</p>
  
  <p>The problem I'm having is that I can write a script in the python.exe program, and it will work exactly how it should.  Then I will run the exact same script using the command prompt, the only thing it returns is a blank line.</p>
  
  <p>for example, I can manually type this into the python console and get the right output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt;print("hello")
  hello
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but if I save that in a Notepad++ file and execute the same script using the command prompt, it'll look like this (please excuse my butchered pathway recreation):</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\username\Python&gt;hello.py
  
  C:\Users\username\Python&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The "hello.py" is the script I tried to run using the exact same code I manually entered in the Python console, but when I try to open the file, it does nothing.</p>
  
  <p>This doesn't happen with every script I try to run, though, and I can't figure out what triggers this to happen.  I'm not getting any kind of error, so I don't know how to go through trial and error.  This is making it increasingly difficult to check my work as I add elements, and I'm not sure how to fix this.  If anyone has suggestions, I would really appreciate the help.</p>