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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:50:40 -0500
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Commands
From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
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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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