Hi again Uwe, I have tried your suggestion, but the result is the same.
Cheers, Stew On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 21:39:10 UTC+10, ufechner wrote: > > Did you try to run your script in an external interpreter? > (Menu of Spyder 2.2: Run->Configure->Execute in new, dedicated Python > interpreter?) > > Regards: > > Uwe > > On 25.06.2013 08:35, Stew Day wrote: > > Hi Uwe, > > Thanks for your thoughts. I'm on the WinXP machine at the moment. > > Under the Source menu 'Convert end of line characters' is set to windows. > > It's not tab related either. If I type 'print "Hello world" in the console > and then hit enter it correctly prints 'Hello world'. > If I type 'print "Hello world" in the editor, save it as test.py and then > run it I get the following error: > > File "<stdin>", line 1 > SyntaxError: 'continue' not properly in loop > > Also I can run scripts using PyScipter on the same WinXP machine without > problems. If I then try to run them with Spyder I get the above error. > > Appreciate any other thoughts anyone has. > > On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:26:03 UTC+10, ufechner wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> is it possible that you have a problem with different "line-ending >> characters"? >> Try the menu entry "convert end-of-line character" from the "source" menu >> before running your script. Make sure that you use "Mac" line-endings on >> the >> Mac and "Windows" line-endings on Windows. >> >> Another possibility could be that you use TAB characters instead of >> spaces, >> and the TAB-width on different computers is different. Make sure that you >> use spaces only and no TAB characters. In the menu >> Tools->Preferences->Editor >> "Advanced settings" you should have "Indentation characters: 4 spaces" >> selected. >> >> Regards: >> >> Uwe Fechner >> >> >> >> On Monday, June 24, 2013 1:45:53 AM UTC+2, Stew Day wrote: >>> >>> Hi group, >>> >>> I learned some python quite a while ago and have decided to revisit it >>> as a tool for statistical analysis. >>> >>> I installed Python(x, y) on my work machine last week (Windows XP) and, >>> after some playing around it looks like things are working (am able to run >>> example scripts from Allen Downey's free book ThinkPython in Spyder). >>> >>> At home I run an old MacBook (OSX 10.6.8) so I have installed the >>> Anaconda distribution. Once again, it looked like everything was working >>> correctly. >>> >>> So, I copied all the examples files and pdf of ThinkPython to a USB key >>> so that whether I'm at home, at work or on the train, I can work through >>> the example and get myself back up to speed with python. >>> >>> When I tried to run write/run 'hello world' this morning on the train >>> (OSX) I got the following error: >>> >>> File "<stdin>", line 1 >>> SyntaxError: 'continue' not properly in loop >>> >>> I got to work, loaded up Spyder and tried to run the same HelloWorld.py >>> and got the same error. I also tried running some of the other scripts I >>> was playing with last week and got the same error even those these scripts >>> had previously run. >>> >>> I still have PyScripter on my work machine, so ran HelloWorld.py using >>> PyScripter and got Hello world at the console. >>> >>> If I run debug on HelloWorld.py from Spyder I get: >>> >>> debugfile(r'E:\Programming\Python\ThinkPython\HelloWorld.py', >>> wdir=r'E:\Programming\Python\ThinkPython') >>> > e:\programming\python\thinkpython\helloworld.py(5)<module>() >>> -> """ >>> (Pdb) >>> >>> (with a flashing command prompt after (Pdb)) >>> >>> If I then run HelloWorld.py I get: >>> (Pdb) continue >>> Hello world >>> >>> >>> >>> But subsequent runs give the initial error. >>> >>> I'm assuming this is related to Spyder, as I can run the same scripts in >>> PyScipter without error. >>> >>> Hope someone can help (apologies in advance if this is a newbie error). >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
