On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM, gwhite <gwh...@ti.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie running the latest pythonxy (2.7.2.1) & spyder and > python 2.7.2. I suspect my questions are mostly basic to python, and > not specific to Spyder or iPython. > > Note: Up until now, I mainly used MATLAB, and thus need to de-program > myself appropriately. > > I use Win7-64. > > I wrote the following .py file: > > ----------------- > #! <what is supposed to go here?>
That's a shebang line. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) It's doesn't matter at all since you're on Windows. On Unix-like systems, one typically writes: #!/usr/bin/env python > # Filename: newbie00.py > > if __name__ == '__main__': Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list