On Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:21:52 AM UTC-8, Simon Evans wrote: > 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
You're probably supposed to type that in your command-line console (Similar to a Linux terminal), not your Python console. "cd" is a command-line console command. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
