help - python can't find file

[enquiring mind]

darren, 

thanks for your explanation.  I copied my paths and listed them in my 
code file
#! /bin/user1/ python

and python finds the file and interprets it so that will keep me going
until my buddy returns to the city to explain my errors.  It appears
that my problem arose from taking lesson code out of text books and
copying the pathing that is I guess slightly different than mine. 

Thanks ever so much.
tk

darren kirby wrote:




> 
> quoth the enquiring mind:
> 
> > - but now I get a error message 21 saying file or directory doesn't
> > exist.
> 
> You must be in the same directory (in konsole) as the python script for this
> to work, else enter the relative path to the file:
> 
> Assuming you are in your home directory (this is where a new konsole will
> start you), and the py scripts are in a directory 'pythondir':
> 
> $ cd pythondir
> $ python myscript.py
> 
> or:
> 
> $ python pythondir/myscript.py
> 
> You could also chmod the script to be executable and run it as a regular
> command ...however... I don't mean this to sound like RTFM but I do think
> that you could use some reading on Linux CLI usage. You say you have some
> Linux books?
> 
> I say this as my reading of your message indicates your problems lie with
> misunderstanding the shell/paths etc, not with Python itself...
> 
> -d
> --
> darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
> "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
> - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972