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[Glen Mettler]

> Based on the '>>>' prefix It looks like you're entering this into the
> python interpreter.  In that context, to get the same behaviour, you
> would probably want to do something like "execfile('alook.py')"  Try
> running "python alook.py" from the shell/dos command prompt, instead.
> It might be helpful to work through a tutorial.  The one at
> www.python.org/doc/tut is pretty good, imo.
>
> Alex.

Actually, I am working thru a tutorial right now.  I don't recall it saying
anything about the differences between the DOS window and the IDLE window.
In any case, I went to the DOS window and this is what I get:

>>> python alook.py
   File "<stdin>", line 1
       python alook.py
                        ^
SyntaxError:  invalid syntax
>>>

Glen