Simple Question regarding running .py program
Caroline Hou
joyhou2010 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 22:31:31 EST 2012
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:35:32 AM UTC-5, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 08:15:45 UTC+5:30, Caroline Hou wrote:
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> > On Monday, 12 November 2012 21:25:08 UTC-5, Dave Angel wrote:
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> > > On 11/12/2012 09:02 PM, Caroline Hou wrote:
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> > > > Hi all!
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> > > > I just started learning Python by myself and I have an extremely simple question now!
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> > > > I am in my Python interpreter now and I want to open/edit a program called nobel.py. But when I typed >>> python nobel.py, it gave me a "SyntaxError:invalid syntax”( I've changed to the correct directory)what should I do?
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> > > > I also want to run the program, but as I double-clicked the program, a command window pops up and closes immediately. How can I see the result of the program run?
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> > > > Could anyone help me please? I am pretty confused here...Thank you!
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> > > It'd be nice to specify that you're running Windows, and also what
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> > > Go to a shell (cmd.exe), change to the directory containing that script,
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> > > On linux: davea at think:~$ python nobel.py
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> > > On Windows: c:\mydir\myscript > python nobel.py
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> > > If you're already in the python interpreter, then running python is
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> > > import. However, I recommend against it at first, as it opens up some
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> > > When you say you "double clicked the program', we have to guess you
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> > > might have meant in MS Explorer. If you do that, it launches a cmd, it
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> > > COULD end your program with an raw_input function call, but frequently
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> > > that won't work. The right answer is the first one above... Open a
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> > > That way, when the program finishes, you can see what happened, or
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> > > BTW, you don't need to send email to both the python-list and to the
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> > > DaveA
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> > Hi Dave!
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> > thank you very much for your quick reply! I did manage to get the program run from cmd.exe.
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> > So does it mean that if I want to use python interactively,I should use the interpreter,while if I just want to run a python program, I should use DOS shell instead?
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> > Also, how could I edit my script? I have sth called "IDLE" installed along with python. Is it the right place to write/edit my script?
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> > Sorry about these semi-idiot questions but it is really hard to find an article or book that covers such basic stuffs!
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> > Caroline Hou
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> IDLE is recommended for newbies like you because an IDE requires too much configuration.
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> When you start writing a big project, you can use an IDE.
Thank you Dave and everybody here for your helpful comments!This place is awesome! I found this group when I googled python-list. Seems like this is not the usual way you guys access the list?
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