[Tutor] Running Existing Python

[Dave Angel]

On 02/26/2011 04:10 PM, Justin Bonnell wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
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>> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Justin Bonnell wrote:
>>> Okay. When I try to run the script from the terminal, it still doesn't work. Here is a screenshot.
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>>> What am I doing wrong?
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>> 1) You're top-posting.  Put your responses after the quote you're responding to.
> --Okay. I'm pretty new to this so most of my responses were just general questions rather than specific responses.
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>> 2) You're trying to include graphical images in a text-based newsgroup.  Just use copy/paste, and include it in your message.
> --Got it. I will do that from now on.
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>> 3) You don't tell us where the hello.py file actually is.  Presumably it's not in the current directory when you run that.  Two cures for that:  either specify its real location,
>>      python   ~/mysources/hello.py
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> --This is the location of the file:
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> 	/jwbonnell/bin/Python 2.7/Extras/Demo/tkinter/guido/hello.py
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> but it still says it cannot find the directory when I try to run it or cd to it. Is there any way that I can tell which directory the shell is currently working from?
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pwd will show your current directory on Linux.  And it's usually showing 
in your prompt.

As for cd not working, someone else has pointed out that in the shell, 
you need to escape certain characters, the space being one.  I try to 
avoid ever having spaces in directory or file names.

>> or cd to the proper directory.  The latter is usually easier, but it depends where other files your script are located.
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>> DaveA
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