python + bash + new user

[Joyce Stack]

Sorry about being vague...i meant the Bash prompt...i have gotten other simple
programs to work...changed mode and executed the programs ...but i dont know how to
run the program and pass a variable at the same time...

Thanking you for you help..

Joyce

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> In article <3793BE52.43E023BB at netcard.com>,
> Joyce Stack  <joyce at netcard.com> wrote:
> >
> >I am not new to programming but new to python...i want to know how do i
> >call functions from the prompt....
>
> From which prompt, python or bash?  The python prompt should look
> something like this:
>
> % python
> Python 1.5.2 (#6, Jun 29 1999, 15:08:27)  [GCC 2.7.2] on sunos5
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>>
>
> You can then type any valid python command or expression at the ">>>"
> python prompt.  For example:
>
> >>> int("3")
> 3
> >>> x=int("3")
> >>> x*x
> 9
>
> Note that commands do not print output, but expressions do.  And, yes,
> startling as it is for a C programmer, "=" is *not* an expression but a
> statement/command.
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