At the start of Chapter 3 of 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' it has said to create a html file, 'ecological
pyramid.html' - which I have already done re: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <html> <body> <div class="ecopyramid"> <ul id= "producers"> <li class="producers"> <li class="producerlist"> <div class="name">plants</div> <div class="number">100000</div> </li> <li class="producerlist"> <div class="name">algae</div> <div class="number">100000</div> </li> </ul> <ul id ="primaryconsumers"> <li class="primaryconsumerlist"> <div class="name">deer</div> <div class-"number">1000</div> </li <li class="primaryconsumerlist"> <div class="name">deer</div> <div class="number">1000</div> </li> <li class="primaryconsumerlist"> <div class="name">rabbit</div> <div class="number">2000</div> </li> </ul> <ul id="secondaryconsumers"> <li class="secondary consumerlist"> <div class="name">fox</div> <div class="number">100</div> </li> <li class=secondaryconsumerlist"> <div class="name">bear</div> <div class="number">100</div> </li> </ul> <ul id="tertiaryconsumers"> <li class="tertiaryconsumerslist"> <div class="name">lion</div> <div class="number">80</div> </li> <li class="tertiaryconsumerlist"> <div class="name">tiger</div> <div class="number">50</div> </li> </ul> </body> </html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- and ran it okay in 'Explorer', and text then says to save it to a folder named 'Soup' which I have done. On the next page (30) it says to navigate to that folder with the following code to the python console :- cd Soup however console rejects that code with the following return: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> cd Soup File "<stdin>", line 1 cd Soup ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for reading, hope you can help. Yours Simon Evans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list