Issue with Python module downloads from Library for a beginner Python coder.

[Sarvesh Poddar]

 Hi,
I am currently using Python 3.8.5 with IDLE environment that comes pre-installed with the Python application. I am using the book "An Introduction to computer science" by John Zelle as my reference.
The problem I am facing is "There is a python program named "graphics.py" that is used as reference in the book and I downloaded the python file from internet (link to the file - https://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/graphics.py). I have kept this module in (C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32) and this is were my Python files also lie in C drive. The problem is that I am not able to import graphics.py file and when I try to do that following is the error I receive,
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>    import graphics
  File "C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\graphics.py", line 1
    Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32           ^SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 I have installed, uninstalled and then re-installed Python 3.8.5 multiple times but the problem remains. I did a thorough internet search and most of them suggested using sys path and following is the result,

import sys>>> sys.path['', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\python38.zip', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\DLLs', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\lib', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32', 'C:\\Users\\sarvesh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\lib\\site-packages']
When I write a different line -  (from import graphics *), this is the output:
from graphics import *Traceback (most recent call last):  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>    from graphics import *  File "C:\Users\sarvesh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\graphics.py", line 1    Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32           ^SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Please do let me know if I am missing out something very basic.
Thanks and I look forward.    On Saturday, 1 August, 2020, 07:54:19 am IST, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 9:24 AM Sarvesh Poddar via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:

> I re-installed Python in my Windows system as the earlier one was not able to import modules...

You do not provide much detail to diagnose what your problem(s)
is(are).  By the "earlier one" is it the same version as the one you
re-installed?  Were you able to run IDLE with the "earlier one"?  By
not being able to import modules do you mean modules from Python's
standard library?  Or do you mean installing third party libraries
using pip?

> ...But now I am not able to open IDLE after multiple tries.

Have you looked in your start menu in the list of installed programs
for Python?  If it is there did you expand it and see if there is an
entry for IDLE?  How have you been trying (unsuccessfully) to open
IDLE?


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boB