Peter Pearson wrote: > When you type "python helloworld.py", python looks for helloworld.py > in the current "working" directory, which is probably your personal > default directory ("~"). For better results, either save helloworld.py > to this directory, or copy it to this directory > ("cp Documents/helloworld.py ."), or tell python to look for it > in the Documents directory ("python Documents/helloworld.py"). > > (I'm guessing that your directory structure looks something > like /home/collin/Documents. If I've guessed wrong, some > adjustment may be needed. Also, if you're feeling ambitious, > you might want to consider putting this project in a directory > of its own; that would involve the mkdir and cd commands.) >
In slackware one needs "./" before the filename if you executing files in current dir. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list