Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-16 Thread typetext
. 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

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2005-06-16 Thread Catherine Kostyn
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Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-16 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
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. A

Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-16 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 07:23 -0700, typetext wrote: > Thank you for responding. Here is what happens when I type python > helloworld.py without any quotation marks into the command line:1. > The prompt line reads > 1.C:\Documents and Settings\Micky > 2. I type "python" > 3. the python prompt comes

Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-15 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:19 -0700, typetext wrote: > I am trying to run my first python scripts from a windows XP command > line, and using Ivan Langhan's book Teach yourself python in 24 hours. > I have installed Active Python 2.4 and have had no trouble running the > scripts in the IDE . Followi

Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-15 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 21:23 -0600, Chuck Allison wrote: > Dear Tutors, > > Here is a query from a student from a corporate class I'm teaching. Do > you know of any such modules of the top of your head? Thanks! > > === > Quick question since the next class isn't until Monday. Do you know of > a

Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-15 Thread Chuck Allison
Dear Tutors, Here is a query from a student from a corporate class I'm teaching. Do you know of any such modules of the top of your head? Thanks! === Quick question since the next class isn't until Monday. Do you know of any modules in Python that can convert a bitmap from one format to anoth

[Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-15 Thread typetext
I am trying to run my first python scripts from a windows XP command line, and using Ivan Langhan's book Teach yourself python in 24 hours. I have installed Active Python 2.4 and have had no trouble running the scripts in the IDE . Following the instructions for running from a command line, I type,