Rocco, please ask questions about Python on python-list or places like stackoverflow.com.  1. If python behavior puzzles you, the chance that it is a python bug is well less than 1 in 1000.  2. The answer you get will be much more visible to others who have similar questions.

Also, when you use the IDLE IDE to execute your python code, IDLE submits your code to a running python.exe process and displays the answer received from that process.  The answer is nearly always the same as when you submit the same code to python yourself.  'IDLE' is for questions about IDLE behavior rather than Python behavior.