Please give your environment when starting a new thread. Python version
and OS version. In this case, I'm guessing Windows, because I have to
guess something to give a meaningful answer.
On 12/11/2014 02:21 PM, 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:
<snip>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
cd is not a Python "command", it's a cmd command. In other words, you
type that in your DOS box before starting Python.
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