. Here's what happened. I had forgotten to specify the following, and therefore was not inside the proper directory. What worked was cd c:\documents and settings\my documents\ then enter, then python helloworld.py. Success! Onward and upward. I was missing the "my documents" part, and therefore was not inside the proper directory. Michael Riggs
On 6/16/05, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:08 -0700, typetext wrote: > > I get exactly the same error message as below. What could be going on > > here? To check that I am not misspelling the name, I also wrote a > > script that says print "helloworld" and saved it as hello.py. The same > > message comes up then, as well. Any input is appreciated.. > > Michael Riggs, Seattle. > > > There seems to be some miss-understanding on what's going on! It seems > to me that you're typing "python", hitting Enter key, then typing > "helloworkd.py" *inside* the Python interactive shell and that's *not* > what I said! > > All you need to type is "python helloworld.py", then hit the Enter key. > Of course, you need to be inside the directory that holds that file. > > Just start a command prompt, type "cd C:\Documents and Settings\Micky", > hit Enter, type "python helloworld.py", hit Enter and your script should > run fine. > > > If you get anything else, just repost here again. Do *not* let this get > in your way of learning! If I (or anyone else on this list) didn't want > to help you, we wouldn't responded to your questions in the first place. > > Ziyad. > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor