On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:11 -0700, Danny Laya wrote: > ... or you could start you fire up a text editor (something like > Notepad > in Windows, or nano in Linux and type "3+4"(without the quotes!), > hmmm..., and save the file as anything you want, lets say for now you > save the file as "threePlusFour". Every time you invoke the python > interpreter (do you know how to do that?) with "threePlusFour", you > will > get the value seven! > > Well HE..HE i don't know. Let say I write the "threePlusFour" file in > /home/danny/threePlusFour.py > How I can invoke that file > ??? >From the forward slashes in the file path I assume you are using a Linux based >OS, Ubuntu perhaps? Well, to use python you need to to start the terminal or the shell. In Ubuntu, go to Main Menu ==> Accessories and click on Terminal, you will now have a new window open with something like this --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ .
Enter the name "python" followed by the name of your file. In this case you should enter "python /home/danny/threePlusFour.py"(without the quotes!). If you want to enter into the Python interactive prompt, simply type python and you should be rewarded with something like: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> The ">>>" there means python is waiting for you to enter commands. Try 3+4, or 4/3 Does this help? Kinuthia... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor