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Re: Running python scripts from the command line.

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Nanderson
<mandersonrandersonanderson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently started to program. Python is my first language, so I'm
> a complete beginner. I've been trying to call python scripts from the
> command line by entering this command into it:
>
>>>>python test.py
>
> But it gives me this error message:
>
>>>>python test.py
>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>    python test.py
>                   ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I know that test.py exists, and the script is correct (here is is
> anyways):
>
> a = 1
> if a:
>    print 'Value of a is', a
>
> I am using python 2.7.1 installed on Windows 7. This seems like
> something that should be easy, so I'm sure I'm just missing a very
> small problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Anderson

You're already in Python when you type that. If you want to run a
script, you need to call Python from your normal shell, not from
inside the Python interpreter.

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 10 2011, 20:14:15)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> python
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'python' is not defined
>>> exit()
$  python test.py
Value of a is 1


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Running python scripts from the command line. Nanderson <mandersonrandersonanderson@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 18:43 -0800
  Re: Running python scripts from the command line. Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-01-31 21:54 -0500
    Re: Running python scripts from the command line. Nanderson <mandersonrandersonanderson@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 19:08 -0800

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