On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Nanderson <mandersonrandersonander...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've recently started to program. Python is my first language, so I'm > a complete beginner. I've been trying to call python scripts from the > command line by entering this command into it: > >>>>python test.py > > But it gives me this error message: > >>>>python test.py > File "<stdin>", line 1 > python test.py > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > I know that test.py exists, and the script is correct (here is is > anyways): > > a = 1 > if a: > print 'Value of a is', a > > I am using python 2.7.1 installed on Windows 7. This seems like > something that should be easy, so I'm sure I'm just missing a very > small problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Anderson
You're already in Python when you type that. If you want to run a script, you need to call Python from your normal shell, not from inside the Python interpreter. $ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 10 2011, 20:14:15) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> python Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'python' is not defined >>> exit() $ python test.py Value of a is 1 > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
