On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Ryan Shuell <ryanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm an absolute noob to Python, although I have been programming in several > other languages for over 10 years. > > I'm trying to install and run some scripts, and I'm not having much success. > > I followed the steps at this site. > https://docs.python.org/2/install/ > > I have Python 2.7.6 Shell. > > If I type this: > python setup.py install > > I get this: > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Hi! The commands you're looking at need to be run from your regular shell; I'm guessing you may be on Windows, so that would be the command prompt (cmd.exe). But rather than playing with setup.py directly, you should now be able to use pip, which is also run from the command line: C:\>pip install flask C:\>\python27\Scripts\pip install flask The first version works if you've added the appropriate directories to your PATH, the second is where the executable is actually found. I have several Pythons installed, so I didn't let it put itself into PATH; chances are you can take the easy route. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
