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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

#83567 — MS-DOS Commands

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?

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#83569

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:13 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

That error is from the Python interpreter, not MS-DOS (by which I
assume you mean the Windows command prompt; nobody seriously uses
MS-DOS any more).

> how can i fix this?

That depends on what it is you're trying to do. If you're actually
trying to run some program called 'strings' from the command prompt
then you'll need to exit the Python interpreter first (or open a
second command prompt window).

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#83570

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On 01/11/2015 02:13 PM, Jenacee Owens 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?

What where you trying to accomplish, and what did you expect that to 
do?  It's not a valid Python statement, so an error message that says as 
much is to be expected.

You really should start with a Python tutorial.

More comments:

  * You did not type that "into the MS-DOS Commands", but rather to
    Python (or more accurately, to the Python interpreter).
  * Python does not have "commands", but rather "statements".
  * There is a module named strings, and you could import it (to use
    Python's terminology) with the "import strings" statement, but
    there's probably not much need to do so.  But then the "strings"
    statement you typed would not produce an error message, but would
    just print out a line informing you that strings is a module -- not
    very useful.
  * Rather than using Python in an MS-DOS window, you should consider
    trying statements and programs in Idle -- A reasonable GUI
    environment to experiment with Python.  It came with your
    installation of Python.
  * In the future, questions should be accompanied with information
    about your version of Python (Python2 or Python3) and the platform
    you are running it on. (Apparently Windows in your case.)

Gary Herron

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#83571

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
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list



-- 
Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com

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#83578

On 11/01/2015 22:13, Jenacee Owens 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?
>

Others have already commented, so I'll just ask would you be more 
comfortable on the tutor mailing list 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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