Re: MS-DOS Commands

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Date	Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:50:40 -0500
Subject	Re: MS-DOS Commands
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Jenacee Owens <jenaceerowens@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to python and every time i type a command into the MS-DOS Commands it looks like this.
>
>>>>strings
>
> Traceback<most recent call last:
>    file "<stdin>";line 1 in <module>
> name error:name strings'is not defined
>
> how can i fix this?

Nothing to do with DOS, there is no strings

Try this:
>>>my_string = "hi there"
>>>print my_string
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MS-DOS Commands Jenacee Owens <jenaceerowens@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 14:13 -0800
  Re: MS-DOS Commands Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 15:32 -0700
  Re: MS-DOS Commands Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2015-01-11 14:33 -0800
  Re: MS-DOS Commands Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 17:50 -0500
  Re: MS-DOS Commands Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-11 23:57 +0000

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