On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Randy Trahan wrote: > >> <snip> First, I am suppose to put this in the script mode vs the IDLE mode >> correct? He failed to mention where.. > > It really doesn't matter - although presumably he meant you to write a script instead of in the shell/interactive interpreter (the prompt starting >>> ) > Also, I get a syntax error at "input"? Since its my first day/hour I >> don't know how to debug and its typed in exactly as he wrote it... >> Finally, I'm running Python 2.6 on Vista. It loaded but the book did not >> mention Vista it only went up to XP. Is that ok? >> > Python works(ed?) fine on my computer when I ran Vista. As long as you keep to the 2.XX series of Python you shouldn't have too much trouble picking up python - it's really only if you start switching to Python 3 that you'll have a problem - specifically a lot of statements have turned into functions... but that's a discussion for a different day :) HTH, Wayne
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