On Jan 31, 6:54 pm, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > 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
Wow, thank you very much for your help. This worked absolutely great. I feel like a huge n00b after that though; it was just so obvious! Anyways, like I said before, thank you very much for your help. Anderson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
