whatever you type after the >>> is either a statement that command python to do something (like "print 'hello'"), or an object that might or might not contain/return a value. The 'hello' you typed (the one that caused error) is simply a word. It is not a command, it is not a variable, it is not an object. Compare to this:
>>> print "Hello" Hello >>> hello=3 # assign 3 to a variable 'hello' >>> hello # Now hello is a variable containing 3 3 when you typed : >>> hello python will try to look for any variable named 'hello' in order to investigate its content for return. But it can't find it because you didn't define it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
