Puzzled

Chris Gonnerman chris at gonnerman.org
Fri Nov 6 08:40:29 EST 2015


Wendy said:
> 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.
But that's not how the Python interpreter works.  You say you are trying 
to run "py files" at the >>> prompt.  If what you are doing is this:

     >>> test.py

Well, no, that's not going to work.  If you want to run "test.py" as a 
script, from the CMD prompt you type:

     python test.py

If test.py is a module meant to be imported, then from the Python prompt 
you do this:

     import test

Hope this helps.

-- Chris.




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