New to Python-- Help

[akameswaran at gmail.com]

Are you refering to IDLE?  or simply running python at the command
line?

In either case - python is just the language's name.  It is not a
defined name within the language.

If you describe what you are trying to do, perhaps some more specific
help could be had.

What is happening:
There currently is no name in the interpreter called python and it is
telling you that

Try this.
>>> python = "A cool language"
>>> python
'A cool language'
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'python']
>>>

btw:  dir() is a way of getting the currently defined names
you could also try this - just to get a feel for the names

you can also request the names going down the heirarchy.

enter:
dir(__doc__)
and see what happens.

Happy Pythoning.

John & Mary Cook wrote:
> I just installed Python on Windows XP Pro.  When I enter 'python' at the >>>
> prompt in Pythonwin IDE I get the following:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> Name Error: name 'python' is not defined
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> J. T. Cook