Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Lee Congdon
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 4:45 PM T Berger wrote: > [snip] > Sorry. That's terrible. But I did run the code a number of times > correctly. I just did it again and got the same key icon: > > Last login: Sat Jun 9 13:26:14 on ttys000 > 192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/dist > 192:dist TamaraB$ d

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Jun2018 22:57, Tamara Berger wrote: Thanks for the help. I was just following the coding in the workbook when I inserted sudo. Fair enough too. But generally, in future, consider any command prefixed with sudo with some suspicion. Sometimes it is the sensible thing to do, but many many

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Jun2018 22:50, Tamara Berger wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:05 AM Cameron Simpson wrote: A third possibility is that you made a mymodules somewhere else (such as in your top level home directory), and later decided to put it on your Desktop to make it easy to find/access. I did save it

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Tamara Berger
Hi Cameron, Thanks for the help. I was just following the coding in the workbook when I inserted sudo. What you said about it makes a lot of sense. Again, thanks for all your help. Tamara On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:49 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 09Jun2018 10:48, Tamara Berger wrote: > >I wa

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Tamara Berger
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:05 AM Cameron Simpson wrote: > > A third possibility is that you made a mymodules somewhere else (such as in > your top level home directory), and later decided to put it on your Desktop to > make it easy to find/access. I did save it in My Documents first and then moved

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Jun2018 10:48, Tamara Berger wrote: I want to read your last two emails in the evening when I have more time to digest the information, but I have a quick question now. I made the correction you suggested to mymodule and went on to create a source distribution file. Then I got stuck again

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread T Berger
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 3:30:39 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: > On 2018-06-09 18:48, T Berger wrote: > [snip] > > > I want to read your last two emails in the evening when I have more time to > > digest the information, but I have a quick question now. I made the > > correction you suggested to mym

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread MRAB
On 2018-06-09 18:48, T Berger wrote: [snip] I want to read your last two emails in the evening when I have more time to digest the information, but I have a quick question now. I made the correction you suggested to mymodule and went on to create a source distribution file. Then I got stuck a

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread T Berger
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 5:05:25 AM UTC-4, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 09Jun2018 02:37, Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Saturday 09 June 2018 01:36:17 Tamara Berger wrote: > >> Re inline style: When I hit reply, this is the window I get. > > The python-list server strips attachments, so I didn't ge

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Jun2018 02:37, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 June 2018 01:36:17 Tamara Berger wrote: Re inline style: When I hit reply, this is the window I get. The python-list server strips attachments, so I didn't get the screenshot you may have attached. However... I don't get my previous e

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-09 Thread Gregory Ewing
Gene Heskett wrote: Finder, if thats what you are using, I am not familiar with it, is probably showing you that which it has cached, before that folder was created. The Finder is usually pretty good at noticing things like that. I just tried creating a directory using a shell command while t

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 June 2018 01:36:17 Tamara Berger wrote: > Hi Cameron, > > Re inline style: When I hit reply, this is the window I get. I don't > get my previous email with the carets appended to the beginning of the > line. > That might be a config choice, but since its gmail it may not be. I tried

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Tamara Berger
Hi Cameron, Re inline style: When I hit reply, this is the window I get. I don't get my previous email with the carets appended to the beginning of the line. Before I look at the rest of your email, I'd like for you to explain how there is a mymodule folder nested within another mymodule folder.

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jun2018 22:55, Tamara Berger wrote: I have to answer you via email because I haven't gotten the hang of the inline style yet. I'm using email :-) We use the inline style for that, too. Just walk down the quoted previous message and insert your responses below the relevant parts with bla

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Tamara Berger
Hi Cameron, I have to answer you via email because I haven't gotten the hang of the inline style yet. Here is the result of your suggestion: Last login: Fri Jun 8 22:43:58 on ttys001 192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules/ 192:mymodules TamaraB$ ls -laR /Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules total 16 drw

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jun2018 10:23, Tamara Berger wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:35 AM Cameron Simpson wrote: On 08Jun2018 01:52, Tamara Berger wrote: >192:~ TamaraB$ cd Desktop/mymodules >192:mymodules TamaraB$ pwd >/Users/TamaraB/Desktop/mymodules >192:mymodules TamaraB$ ls >mymodules It looks like you h

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Tamara Berger
Nope. No duplicate folder. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:35 AM Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 08Jun2018 01:52, Tamara Berger wrote: > >In answer to your comments, I am in the correct folder. But the "ls" > >command did not return any files. Did I enter the command incorrectly? > >Or are the files not r

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread MRAB
On 2018-06-08 09:53, Cameron Simpson wrote: [snip] Instead of just putting your reply at the top, and maybe hand quoting soe line of text with cut/paste (which you seem to be doing), start scrolling down the quoted text. Just cut out anything no longer needed (but keeping the attribution. Then wh

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jun2018 01:52, Tamara Berger wrote: In answer to your comments, I am in the correct folder. But the "ls" command did not return any files. Did I enter the command incorrectly? Or are the files not recognized? Here is what I typed into terminal: "Last login: Fri Jun 8 01:40:07 on ttys001 1

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jun2018 01:20, Tamara Berger wrote: Before I reply to the meat of your email, I guess we'd better clear up your initial issues. You write: "Replies inline below, which is the style we prefer on this list. (And to reply, please reply to the specific message, not your original post. This wil

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Tamara Berger
Hi Cameron, I'm replying via email because the Post Reply button is missing from the forum website. In answer to your comments, I am in the correct folder. But the "ls" command did not return any files. Did I enter the command incorrectly? Or are the files not recognized? Here is what I typed int

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Tamara Berger
Hi Cameron, Before I reply to the meat of your email, I guess we'd better clear up your initial issues. You write: "Replies inline below, which is the style we prefer on this list. (And to reply, please reply to the specific message, not your original post. This will let you pick up that branch o

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
Hi, Replies inline below, which is the style we prefer on this list. (And to reply, please reply to the specific message, not your original post. This will let you pick up that branch of the conversation directly and not confuse your readers.) On 07Jun2018 08:39, T Berger wrote: On Wednesda

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-07 Thread T Berger
On Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 12:19:35 PM UTC-4, T Berger wrote: > I’m learning Python on my own and have been stuck for two days trying to get > modules I created into site-packages. As a trial step, we were asked to > change directly into the folder containing our modules. I typed “cd > mymodu

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-07 Thread T Berger
On Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 12:19:35 PM UTC-4, T Berger wrote: > I’m learning Python on my own and have been stuck for two days trying to get > modules I created into site-packages. As a trial step, we were asked to > change directly into the folder containing our modules. I typed “cd > mymodu

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Tamara, and welcome! My response is written below. Please ensure your reply is to the group, not just to me personally, thank you. On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:19:17 -0700, T Berger wrote: > I’m learning Python on my own and have been stuck for two days trying to > get modules I created into sit

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-06 Thread Shakti Kumar
Hi Berger, Do you have any space in the absolute path for mymodules? Spaces avoid getting the correct path as I had seen in one of my virtual environments. Shakti. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 9:53 PM T Berger wrote: > I’m learning Python on my own and have been stuck for two days trying to > get modul