On Mar 31, 9:57 am, JonathanB <doulo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 30, 6:28 pm, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 8:37 am, Irmen de Jong <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > Does just typing: > > > > python > > Yes, just typing python takes me to my interactive prompt > > > > Or do you have a module in your E:\Python\dev directory called 'os', > > > 'sys' or something > > > else that may clobber one of the default library modules. > > The only module in the directory is called pyfind.py
So what do you classify hello.py as? A script? Please tell us what other files are in the directory. > > > > > or perhaps there's a file named python.bat that does nothing. > > > What directory is Python installed in? What does your Windows PATH > > look like? Is this your very first attempt to do anything at all with > > Python or have you managed to get any output from a Python script > > before? If the latter, what have you changed in your environment? Does > > E: refer to a removable disk? > > Unfortunately, this problem is on my work computer, so I'm not in > front of it right now. I've done the development on this in > PortablePython, but I have python installed in C:/Python25 and that > should be in my path (I went though and added it). I've never run a > script that output to the command line before, only django apps. > Django will output stuff though, which makes me wonder if I've somehow > borked my stdout in the script. Not sure how I could have done that, > but I'll post the script I've written in the next post just in case > I'm somehow messing up the calls (although "print var" seems fairly > user-proof...). E: does refer to a removable disc. If hello.py doesn't print, then the problem is unlikely to be in your big script. I suspect that your best approach would be to (a) ensure that you have the latest release of Portable Python [there was one in the last few days] and (b) ask the author for help. Other things to try that might diagnose where the problem really is: just follow my example below. | C:\junk>python -c "print 9876" | 9876 | | C:\junk>python | Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on | win32 | Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. | >>> print "hello" | hello | >>> print 9876 | 9876 | >>> ^Z | | | C:\junk>copy con test1.py | print 9876 | ^Z | 1 file(s) copied. | | C:\junk>python test1.py | 9876 | | C:\junk>copy con test2.py | 1 / 0 | ^Z | 1 file(s) copied. | | C:\junk>python test2.py | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "test2.py", line 1, in <module> | 1 / 0 | ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero | HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
