On Thursday 05 November 2015 19:04:35 Robinson, Wendy wrote: > Hmmm... fair enough. I sent the traceback though, on Monday.
If you sent a traceback on Monday, it wasn't seen by this list. Do not 'attach' it to the message, but include it as the list server might have stripped an attachment. > I'll give the intro a read again. I've probably missed something > basic. > > Wendy Robinson > Audit Analyst > (916) 566-4994 phone > > > > NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is for the sole use of the > intended recipient and may contain material that is confidential and > protected by state and federal regulations. If you are not the > intended recipient please immediately delete it and contact the > sender. This is a public list Wendy, so this has no meaning. There are those, who on seeing such a message, will not reply even if they could help. > -----Original Message----- > From: Laura Creighton [mailto:l...@openend.se] > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:11 PM > To: Robinson, Wendy > Cc: 'Laura Creighton'; 'python-list@python.org'; l...@openend.se > Subject: Re: Puzzled > > In a message of Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:48:11 -0800, "Robinson, Wendy" writes: > >Well... I still can't get this to work. I guess I'll just uninstall > > it. It's a bummer that there's no help on basic startup like this. > > > >Wendy Robinson > >Audit Analyst > >(916) 566-4994 phone > > There is enormous amount of help available. But we need to know more > about what your problem is, and how it presents itself before we can > start tracking down what your problem is, which is why I wanted a > traceback. > > >>Hi there, > >>I installed Python 3.5.0 64-bit for Windows yesterday and tried some > >> basic programs successfully. This morning I rebooted my computer > >> and can't get a single one to work. The interpreter seems to be > >> fine and the environment variables look correct. But every py file > >> I try to run at the >>> prompt gives me a NameError. > > See, this is where your problem is. There is a conceptual problem in > understanding what you meant by 'tried some basic programs > successfully' versus 'running py files at the >>> prompt'. > > Either you didn't use the Python console -- the thing that is showing > you the '>>>' yesterday, and thus the programs that were working > yesterday are now working every bit as well as they did then, and your > problem is that you do not know how to use the python console. > > Or you did use the console before, and they worked there, and now you > have NameErrors. > > I think the problem is the first sort. > I think that you opened up the python console and then typed in > something like 'myprogram.py' expecting the console to run the > myprogram. Instead you got something like this: > > Python 3.5.0rc1 (default, Aug 12 2015, 14:57:46) [GCC 5.2.1 20150808] > on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more > information. > > >>> myprogram.py > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'myprogram' is not defined >>> > > If this is what happened then your python is fine. You just do not > know how the interactive console works. It doesn't run files like > this. > > See:https://docs.python.org/3.5/tutorial/introduction.html > > You type code at the console and get responses back. > > If, on the other hand, this is not your problem, then we need a > traceback --- and what I posted above was a traceback -- so that we > can see what caused the NameError. > > Laura Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
