David Wahler wrote: > Are you using the first edition of "Learning Python"? According to > <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/> that was published in 1999, > which puts it right around the end of Python 1.5. I'd strongly suggest > you find a much more recent tutorial, as a lot of python has been > improved and altered since then (sometimes in incompatible ways).
Actually I'm using the second edition, which is updated to 2.2/2.3. But you are right, I just tried it in the command prompt and it does work, so my mind can rest tonight. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list