noob needs help

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM, packet <fasteliteprogrammer at gmail.com>wrote:

> What i would use is emacs is  better i think.
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Why are you telling a beginning programmer to use emacs? It takes more time
to learn to use emacs (or vim) than it does to learn to program python.


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> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM, toveysnake <collintovey at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I decided that I want to learn python, and have no previous
>> programming experience. I was reading the guide A byte of python and
>> got to the part where you create and run the program helloworld.py I
>> used kate to create this program and save it as helloworld.py. I then
>> entered the command python helloworld.py into the terminal(I am using
>> ubuntu 8.10) and I get this error:
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>> collin at collin-laptop:~$ python helloworld.py
>> python: can't open file 'helloworld.py': [Errno 2] No such file or
>> directory
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>> Am I saving the file in the wrong spot?(I saved it in documents)
>> Should I use a different editor? Is there a better python book
>> available online?
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