Grrr.... I'm following A Byte of Python and into the while loops chap. I cp/paste while.py to a file and give 777 perms. I mv while.py to while and run it (./while) as a standalone script. I get errors.
Here is the script: while.py http://www.ibiblio.org/swaroopch/byteofpython/read/while-statement.html When I run it as..... $ python while .....it works perfect. But, if I run it simply as..... $ ./while .....I get this: $ ./while number: illegal number: = ./while: line 6: running: command not found ./while: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token (' ./while: line 9: guess = int(raw_input('Enter an integer : '))' Why does it work one way and not the other. If I run the simple hello world script the same way ($ ./helloworld) and it works fine. Same shebang, same dir, same permission, etc. I even meticulously indented everything perfectly by hand. What am I missing? BTW, anyone know a better cli news client/editor combo than slrn/jed (don't even think vi!)? When I cp/past code (or most anything else) to jed, all the lines become stair-stepped. This is no biggie for a most stuff, but for idented code, it's unacceptable. nb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
