Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax'

Thu Dec 11 14:26:16 EST 2014

On Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:21:52 AM UTC-8, Simon Evans wrote:
> At the start of Chapter 3 of 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' it has said to create a html file, 'ecological 
> 
> pyramid.html' - which I have already done re:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <html>
> <body>
> <div class="ecopyramid">
> <ul id= "producers">
> <li class="producers">
> <li class="producerlist">
> <div class="name">plants</div>
> <div class="number">100000</div>
> </li>
> <li class="producerlist">
> <div class="name">algae</div>
> <div class="number">100000</div>
> </li>
> </ul>
> <ul id ="primaryconsumers">
> <li class="primaryconsumerlist">
> <div class="name">deer</div>
> <div class-"number">1000</div>
> </li
> <li class="primaryconsumerlist">
> <div class="name">deer</div>
> <div class="number">1000</div>
> </li>
> <li class="primaryconsumerlist">
> <div class="name">rabbit</div>
> <div class="number">2000</div>
> </li>
> </ul>
> <ul id="secondaryconsumers">
> <li class="secondary consumerlist">
> <div class="name">fox</div>
> <div class="number">100</div>
> </li>
> <li class=secondaryconsumerlist">
> <div class="name">bear</div>
> <div class="number">100</div>
> </li>
> </ul>
> <ul id="tertiaryconsumers">
> <li class="tertiaryconsumerslist">
> <div class="name">lion</div>
> <div class="number">80</div>
> </li>
> <li class="tertiaryconsumerlist">
> <div class="name">tiger</div>
> <div class="number">50</div>
> </li>
> </ul>
> </body>
> </html>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> and ran it okay in 'Explorer', and text then says to save it to a folder named 'Soup' which I have done. 
> On the next page (30) it says to navigate to that folder with the following  code to the python console :-
>  
> cd Soup
> 
> however console rejects that code with the following return: - 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
> 32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> cd Soup
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     cd Soup
>           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thank you for reading, hope you can help.
> Yours
> Simon Evans

You're probably supposed to type that in your command-line console (Similar to a Linux terminal), not your Python console.  "cd" is a command-line console command.