Re: noob needs help

2008-12-03 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Sambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Pearson wrote: > > > In slackware one needs "./" before the filename if you executing > files in current dir. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Umm, only if you're running files marked as executabl

Re: noob needs help

2008-12-02 Thread Sambo
Peter Pearson wrote: > When you type "python helloworld.py", python looks for helloworld.py > in the current "working" directory, which is probably your personal > default directory ("~"). For better results, either save helloworld.py > to this directory, or copy it to this directory > ("cp Doc

Re: noob needs help

2008-12-01 Thread Rafe
On Dec 1, 12:50 am, toveysnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided that I want to learn python, and have no previous > programming experience. I was reading the guide A byte of python and > got to the part where you create and run the program helloworld.py I > used kate to create this program an

Re: noob needs help

2008-11-30 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM, packet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > What i would use is emacs is better i think. > Why are you telling a beginning programmer to use emacs? It takes more time to learn to use emacs (or vim) than it does to learn to program python. > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1

Re: noob needs help

2008-11-30 Thread Peter Pearson
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:50:32 -0800 (PST), toveysnake wrote: [snip] > I used kate to create this program and save it as > helloworld.py. I then entered the command python > helloworld.py into the terminal(I am using ubuntu 8.10) > and I get this error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python helloworld.py >

Re: noob needs help

2008-11-30 Thread Kevin Kelley
Try "python documents/helloworld.py" or "cd documents" before "python helloworld.py". Kevin On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM, toveysnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided that I want to learn python, and have no previous > programming experience. I was reading the guide A byte of python and

Re: noob needs help

2008-11-30 Thread packet
What i would use is emacs is better i think. On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM, toveysnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided that I want to learn python, and have no previous > programming experience. I was reading the guide A byte of python and > got to the part where you create and run t

noob needs help

2008-11-30 Thread toveysnake
I decided that I want to learn python, and have no previous programming experience. I was reading the guide A byte of python and got to the part where you create and run the program helloworld.py I used kate to create this program and save it as helloworld.py. I then entered the command python hell