On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:33 PM, kreglet <kreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I started learning python last year. All of this time i have used the > terminal and gedit to create, modify, and test my applications and modules. > For some reason I can not do this any more. > I'll try to do my best to explain whats happening. > > I have a script modtest.py which has a function to test if an int is even or > odd. > > Before: > desktop:~/bin$ modtest.py > desktop:~/bin$ evenodd(45) > 45 is odd >
That never worked. You can execute Python scripts from the shell, but not arbitrary Python functions. Perhaps you were calling Python using the -i flag, which runs the interactive interpreter after the script is finished executing. $ python -i modtest.py >>> evenodd(45) 45 is odd > Now: > desktop:~/bin$ modtest.py > desktop:~/bin$ evenodd(45) > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `45' > And this is what's supposed to happen any time you try this in any shell. When you call evenodd, bash looks for a program or shell built-in called evenodd. Which doesn't exist. > The above is just an example. ALL of my scripts that worked before no longer > work in the terminal yet they work in the python interpreter. > > Does anyone know what the problem might be and how I can fix it? > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
