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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Frank Scafidi <fpscafidi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just acquired a Raspberry Pi and want to program in Python. I was a PL/1
> programmer back in the 60's & 70's and Python is similar. I am struggling
> with some very fundamental things that I am not finding in the
> documentation. Can someone help me with the basics like how do I save a
> program I've written, reload it in Python, list the program once it's
> loaded? How do I edit a program? Are these command line functions?

I've not worked with Rasberry Pi, but it has some kind of linux on it.
So find a text editor (maybe vim is on it).


Write your code with text editor and save.

To run it type:

python my_program.py

See python.org website and read the tutorial
>
> Thanks
> Frank
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