On Feb 26, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: This is really helpful directions and I am trying to follow what you're saying. I think you are getting my response to another person helping me so this will basically repeat what I was saying there. I am really new to this and am trying to learn on my own so thanks for your help and patience.
> The error says it can't find the file hello.py. > That means its probably in some other folder > or you need to specify the full or relative path to the file > This is a MacOS issue not Python, its how your MacOS > shell is searching for the file. > > If it is in the same folder try explicitly telling MacOS: > > $ python ./hello.py > > Or if it is somewhere else either cd to that folder > or type the path: > > $ python /the/full/path/to/the/dfile/hello.py --I tried to follow this using: /jwbonnell/bin/Python 2.7/Extras/Demo/tkinter/guido/hello.py which is the correct location of the hello.py file. > > There are some environment variables you can > set in your login script which will help MacOS > find the files but they depend on which shell > Terminal is running, tcsh or bash are the usual > options. --My Terminal is running bash. > > Finally there is a trick you can use on the hello.py > file that means you can launch the .py file directly > from Finder. It's called the shebang trick by Unix > folks. > > Basically you add a line like > > #! /usr/env/python > > To the very top of the file. MacOS will then use that > command to execute the script. If usr/env doesn't > work type --So if I add that line to the file, then I use $ python /usr/env/python ? > > $ which python --This is the correct for my computer: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python > > and copy the output instead of /usr/env > > > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn To Program website > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Justin Bonnell <jwbonne...@gmail.com> >> To: Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> >> Cc: tutor@python.org >> Sent: Saturday, 26 February, 2011 6:49:37 >> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Running Existing Python >> >> Okay. When I try to run the script from the terminal, it still doesn't work. >> >> Here is a screenshot. >> >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> >> On Feb 25, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: >> >>> >>> "Justin Bonnell" <jwbonne...@gmail.com> wrote >>> >>>> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86882M, Nov 30 2010, 10:35:34) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. >> build 5664)] on darwin >>>> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> >>> The >>> prompt means you are already inside Python. >>> You can type Python commands at the >>> prompt, things like >>> >>>>>> print "Hello" >>> >>> But you cannot ruin a program from inside the >>> prompt (well, you can, >>> but >> its more complicated than sane people want to bother with! :-) >>> >>> You run a Python script from the OS Terminal prompt: >>> >>> $ python hello.py >>> >>>> Shouldn't I be able to run hello.py from the IDLE interpreter? >>> >>> You can't run it from the >>> prompt in IDLE but.... >>> What you can do is open the file for editing and then run that file using >> the menu commands, then the output will show up in the interpreter window. >>> >> I get how to do this now^^ >>> HTH, >>> >>> -- >>> Alan Gauld >>> Author of the Learn to Program web site >>> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
