What am I doing wrong?

[Lee Harr]

> But I am trying to follow the examples in Learning Python which instructs
> 
>            % cat threenames.py
>             [example code]
> 

This is just for reading the script (looking at it)
and has nothing to do with python.



> but the only prompt I get is the >>>. If I type % cat threenames.py after 
> that prompt I get this,
>        File "<stdin>", line 1
>          % cat threenames.py
>          ^
>      SyntaxError: invalid sytax
>      >>>
> 
> So, what am I missing here? I am pouring other the various Python books I 
> have and I can't see what I am doing wrong. I figure it is something 
> straight foward, I just don't know what it is. If anyone could help me 
> here, I would appreciate it.
> 


Try:

python threenames.py