Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread Alan Gauld
On 28/03/14 15:27, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: Because the desktop is hardly ever anywhere near where the cmd prompt lands you. I just tested on my Windows 7 box. It got me to C:\Users\Kwpolska. `cd Desktop` is enough. I also tested on

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread David Rock
* Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick [2014-03-28 16:27]: > > Create a folder on the desktop, or even in the home directory. A much > nicer place than the drive root — and a much modern way to store it > (drive root sounds DOS-y) I'll have to disagree with this statement. Dropping all your files in you De

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Leo, On 27 March 2014 08:43, Leo Nardo wrote: > Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on my > desktop, in both the interpreter and notepad++, so that i can work on it. I > already have it open in notepad, but for the life of me cannot figure out > how to open it i

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 27/03/14 21:01, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: >> Painful? How painful can `cd Desktop` be? Certainly less than `D:` >> followed by `cd PythonProjects`… > > > Because the desktop is hardly ever anywhere near where the cmd prompt lands > you.

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread Alan Gauld
On 28/03/14 09:28, spir wrote: On 03/28/2014 02:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: you have to remember where it is. There is no ~ shortcut in Windows. On my system that means typing something like: C:\Documents and Settings\alang\Desktop Can't you make a symlink pointing to Desktop? (in C:\ or anywh

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/03/2014 01:17, Alan Gauld wrote: On 27/03/14 21:01, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: On Mar 27, 2014 8:58 PM, "Alan Gauld" mailto:alan.ga...@btinternet.com>> wrote: > > On 27/03/14 06:43, Leo Nardo wrote: >> >> Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on >> m

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-28 Thread spir
On 03/28/2014 02:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: On 27/03/14 21:01, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: On Mar 27, 2014 8:58 PM, "Alan Gauld" mailto:alan.ga...@btinternet.com>> wrote: > > On 27/03/14 06:43, Leo Nardo wrote: >> >> Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on >

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Alan Gauld
On 27/03/14 21:01, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: On Mar 27, 2014 8:58 PM, "Alan Gauld" mailto:alan.ga...@btinternet.com>> wrote: > > On 27/03/14 06:43, Leo Nardo wrote: >> >> Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on >> my desktop, > > > Thats your first pro

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/03/2014 19:56, Alan Gauld wrote: On 27/03/14 06:43, Leo Nardo wrote: Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on my desktop, Thats your first problem. Its usually a bad idea to store your python code on the desktop, because the desktop is a pain to find from a

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Mar 27, 2014 8:58 PM, "Alan Gauld" wrote: > > On 27/03/14 06:43, Leo Nardo wrote: >> >> Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on >> my desktop, > > > Thats your first problem. Its usually a bad idea to store your python code on the desktop, because the desktop is a

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Alan Gauld
On 27/03/14 06:43, Leo Nardo wrote: Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on my desktop, Thats your first problem. Its usually a bad idea to store your python code on the desktop, because the desktop is a pain to find from a command line. Instead create a folde

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Dave Angel
Leo Nardo Wrote in message > > Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on my desktop, in both the interpreter and notepad++, so that i can work on it. I already have it open in notepad, but for the life of me cannot figure out how to open it in the interpreter. In

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
Leo Nardo writes: > Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on > my desktop, in both the interpreter and notepad++, so that i can work > on it. It's not clear what you want. What does it mean to you for a Python program to be “open in the interpreter”? You have opene

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/03/2014 08:55, David Palao wrote: Hello, What do you mean by "open it in the interpreter"? Do you want to open it and read from it its content? or do you want to execute its python code within the interpreter? Best 2014-03-27 7:43 GMT+01:00 Leo Nardo : Im on windows 8 and i need to open a

Re: [Tutor] Help Noob Question

2014-03-27 Thread David Palao
Hello, What do you mean by "open it in the interpreter"? Do you want to open it and read from it its content? or do you want to execute its python code within the interpreter? Best 2014-03-27 7:43 GMT+01:00 Leo Nardo : > Im on windows 8 and i need to open a file called string1.py that is on my > d