Puzzled

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 November 2015 19:04:35 Robinson, Wendy wrote:

> Hmmm... fair enough.  I sent the traceback though, on Monday.

If you sent a traceback on Monday, it wasn't seen by this list.
Do not 'attach' it to the message, but include it as the list server 
might have stripped an attachment.

> I'll give the intro a read again.  I've probably missed something
> basic.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Creighton [mailto:lac at openend.se]
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:11 PM
> To: Robinson, Wendy
> Cc: 'Laura Creighton'; 'python-list at python.org'; lac at openend.se
> Subject: Re: Puzzled
>
> In a message of Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:48:11 -0800, "Robinson, Wendy" 
writes:
> >Well... I still can't get this to work. I guess I'll just uninstall
> > it. It's a bummer that there's no help on basic startup like this.
> >
> >Wendy Robinson
> >Audit Analyst
> >(916) 566-4994 phone
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> There is enormous amount of help available.  But we need to know more
> about what your problem is, and how it presents itself before we can
> start tracking down what your problem is, which is why I wanted a
> traceback.
>
> >>Hi there,
> >>I installed Python 3.5.0 64-bit for Windows yesterday and tried some
> >> basic programs successfully. This morning I rebooted my computer
> >> and can't get a single one to work.  The interpreter seems to be
> >> fine and the environment variables look correct.  But every py file
> >> I try to run at the >>> prompt gives me a NameError.
>
> See, this is where your problem is. There is a conceptual problem in
> understanding what you meant by 'tried some basic programs
> successfully' versus 'running py files at the >>> prompt'.
>
> Either you didn't use the Python console -- the thing that is showing
> you the '>>>' yesterday, and thus the programs that were working
> yesterday are now working every bit as well as they did then, and your
> problem is that you do not know how to use the python console.
>
> Or you did use the console before, and they worked there, and now you
> have NameErrors.
>
> I think the problem is the first sort.
> I think that you opened up the python console and then typed in
> something like 'myprogram.py' expecting the console to run the
> myprogram.  Instead you got something like this:
>
> Python 3.5.0rc1 (default, Aug 12 2015, 14:57:46) [GCC 5.2.1 20150808]
> on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
>
>  >>> myprogram.py
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'myprogram' is not defined  >>>
>
> If this is what happened then your python is fine.  You just do not
> know how the interactive console works.  It doesn't run files like
> this.
>
> See:https://docs.python.org/3.5/tutorial/introduction.html
>
> You type code at the console and get responses back.
>
> If, on the other hand, this is not your problem, then we need a
> traceback --- and what I posted above was a traceback -- so that we
> can see what caused the NameError.
>
> Laura


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