[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Instead of starting IDLE as I normally do, I started the Python > interpreter and tried to run a program. I got a Python prompt (>>>), > and then tried unsuccessfully to run a Python script named Script1.py > that runs perfectly well in IDLE. Here's what I did: > >>>> Script1.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > NameError: name Script1 is not defined > >>>> python Script1.py
You need to do this from a Windows command line, not from Python. C:\Python25>python Script1.py Hello, world! -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list