Damjan wrote: > >> I'm a fairly literate windoz amateur programmer mostly in visual basic. I >> have switched to SuSE 9.2 Pro and am trying to quickly come up to speed >> with Python 2.3.4. I can run three or four line scripts from the command >> line but have not been able to execute a script from a file. >> >> I have used EMACS and JEDIT to create small test routines. I would right >> click the file and set properties to executable. I would then click the >> icon, the bouncy ball would do its thing then a dialog box would flash on >> the screen for a fraction of a second. I could tell it had a progress >> bar >> on it but could not catch anything else on it. Then nothing else would >> happen. >> >> If I could execute a script the world would once again be my >> playground... PLEASE HELP. > > Open a terminal program like "konsole". > change the directory to where your files are ("cd /path/to/files/"). > execute them ("python my-script.py'). > > THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU It now works from the command line like you said. Shouldn't I also be able to 'click' an icon that has been set to executable and launch the whole process that way?
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