Are you refering to IDLE? or simply running python at the command line? In either case - python is just the language's name. It is not a defined name within the language.
If you describe what you are trying to do, perhaps some more specific help could be had. What is happening: There currently is no name in the interpreter called python and it is telling you that Try this. >>> python = "A cool language" >>> python 'A cool language' >>> dir() ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'python'] >>> btw: dir() is a way of getting the currently defined names you could also try this - just to get a feel for the names you can also request the names going down the heirarchy. enter: dir(__doc__) and see what happens. Happy Pythoning. John & Mary Cook wrote: > I just installed Python on Windows XP Pro. When I enter 'python' at the >>> > prompt in Pythonwin IDE I get the following: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ? > Name Error: name 'python' is not defined > > Can anyone help? > > Thank you, > > J. T. Cook -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
