On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Gopal Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I created a script – myscript.py and saved it at c:\myscript.py > ******* > myscript.py contains the following commands > a=1000 > 2**8 > print 'hello world' > raw_input( ) # what this command does??? > ****** > now I tried to call the script from > IDLE > >>>myscript.py > (not working from IDLE) got the error > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#30>", line 1, in <module> > power.py > NameError: name 'power' is not defined > RUN > c:\myscript.py > (working from RUN) > Python CLI – called by typing python at run prompt > >>>myscript.py > (not working from Python CLI) again got the same error as in IDLE > ****************************************************** > now I tried to run the script in a different way > IDLE > >>>myscript.py > saveit.txt > (not working from IDLE) got the following error > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#29>", line 1, in <module> > power.py > saveit.txt > NameError: name 'power' is not defined > RUN > c:\myscript.py > (working from RUN – but don't know where to locate saveit.txt) > Python CLI – called by typing python at run prompt > >>>myscript.py > (not working from Python CLI) got the same eror as in IDLE > ****************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > Hi I think you are using an older version of python which doesn't support the exponential operation (2**8). The code provided by you work in my python prompt. raw_input() takes a raw string as input from the console. more info at http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-59 Cheers -- Abhinav Sarkar Fair Isaac India Mobile:+91-9731596137 Office: +91-8041371605 Web: http://claimid.com/abhin4v Twitter: http://twitter.com/abhin4v --------- The world is a book, those who do not travel read only one page.
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