Re: Most Basic Question Ever - please help

2009-05-04 Thread seanm . py
On May 3, 12:22 am, CM wrote: > On May 2, 4:36 pm, seanm...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can > > finally get my first program to work. > > > I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window > > in IDLE to create

Re: Most Basic Question Ever - please help

2009-05-02 Thread CM
On May 2, 4:36 pm, seanm...@gmail.com wrote: > I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can > finally get my first program to work. > > I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window > in IDLE to create a file. The file had only one line of code and

Re: Most Basic Question Ever - please help

2009-05-02 Thread seanm . py
On May 2, 6:25 pm, John Machin wrote: > On May 3, 7:46 am, Dave Angel wrote: > > > > > seanm...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can > > > finally get my first program to work. > > > > I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opene

Re: Most Basic Question Ever - please help

2009-05-02 Thread John Machin
On May 3, 7:46 am, Dave Angel wrote: > seanm...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can > > finally get my first program to work. > > > I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window > > in IDLE to create a file. The file h

Re: Most Basic Question Ever - please help

2009-05-02 Thread Dave Angel
seanm...@gmail.com wrote: I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can finally get my first program to work. I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window in IDLE to create a file. The file had only one line of code and was saved as module1.py. I

Re: Most Basic Question Ever - please help

2009-05-02 Thread Stephen Hansen
> > IDLE 2.6.2 > >>> python module1.py > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > The ">>>" prompt is Python's interactive interpreter. Once you are here, you already are in python-- so typing "python" again is redundant and invalid. >From this prompt you type in python code. I have never used IDLE so can't