[Tutor] Running Files with Command Lines

[Yony Torres]

1. i tried this morning and it worked in the CMD check it out:

copied and pasted from the CMD
C:\Users\myusername>cd documents
C:\Users\myusername\Documents>cd varios2
C:\Users\myusername\Documents\varios2>cd pythonjourney
C:\Users\myusername\Documents\varios2\pythonjourney>script.py    <------- i did not write the name the file properly, my mistake!'script.py' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\myusername\Documents\varios2\pythonjourney>script1.py    <----- now i did it properlywin321267650600228229401496703205376spam!spam!spam!spam!spam!spam!spam!spam!
--- i must say that previously i added C:\python32 to the environment path ;)
yay!
now im trying it from the python command line, with no success yet :(


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> To: tutor at python.org
> From: alan.gauld at btinternet.com
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:16:47 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Running Files with Command Lines
>
> On 12/02/12 15:50, Yony Torres wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to learn Python from a well known book,
>
>
> Do0n;t make us guess, tell us the name of the book, well known or not.
> There is just a chance somebody else may have read it too!
>
> > while i was working with the windows CMD
> > c:\Python32>python
>
> This is where you are going wrong.
> You should not run python on its own, that gets you into the Python
> interpreter with its own >>> prompt. For this exercise you want to run
> your script directly from the OS prompt (on Windows usually ending in a
> single >)
>
> > Can somebody please help me?
>
> See the other posted replies about typing the command.
> It will likely look like this(but all on a single line)
>
> C:\Python32> python
> c:\Users\myusername\Documents\varios2\pythonjourney\script1.py
>
> Don't put spaces in your paths, that will confuse Windows...
>
> --
> Alan G
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>
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