On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM, beegee beegee<bgqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am new to python, I have a mac os tiger 10.4.11 > I created a simple text file using textwrangler > and wrote the following code : > > print "Hello World" > > I saved this file on my desktop as first_print.py > I opened terminal > I typed python > and I got >>> as the prompt > I typed python first_print.py > and I got the following error message: > > python first_print.py > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: > can't open file 'first_print.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > please help > Also please let me know as to what is this error message for? what does it > tell a user
"python first_print.py" is a command to be run in the *bash* shell (i.e. raw Terminal). When you do "python" in Terminal, you've opened Python itself, so it makes no sense to then try and run a shell command from within Python itself. So, to run your program: 1. Open Terminal 2. cd Desktop 3. python first_print.py Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
