the windows interpreter

Tim Gahnström md9tim at mdstud.chalmers.se
Mon Jun 5 09:23:06 EDT 2000


I downloaded and installed the python 1.5 for windows interpreter.
I can use some pyton comands at the prompt like

>>> print "Hi"
will causet the output 
Hi
I can also create simple files with idle and run them with F5.
But when I try to use an example program like

----
#! /usr/local/bin/python
import sys
if '-h' in sys.argv or '--help' in 
sys.argv or '--help' in sys.argv: print '''
help.py--does nothing useful (yet)
options: -h, -help, or --help-display this help
Copyright (c) Jacek Artymiak, 2000 '''
    sys.exit(0)
else:
    print 'I don't recognize this option' sys.exit(0)
---

Then it will not work at al, not even if I remove 
the first "linux inspired" line
I get the errormessage

----
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "F:\pyton\Python\Tools\idle\ScriptBinding.py", line 131, in
run_module_event
    execfile(filename, mod.__dict__)
  File "F:\pyton\Python\test.py", line 3
     if '-h' in sys.argv or '--help' in
                                        ^
 SyntaxError: invalid syntax
---


I would apreciate if anyone had a suggestion.

Tim Gahnström




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