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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/11/2015 02:13 PM, Jenacee Owens
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<pre wrap="">I'm new to python and every time i type a command into the MS-DOS Commands it looks like this.
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<pre wrap="">strings
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Traceback<most recent call last:
file "<stdin>";line 1 in <module>
name error:name strings'is not defined
how can i fix this?
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What where you trying to accomplish, and what did you expect that to
do? It's not a valid Python statement, so an error message that
says as much is to be expected.<br>
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You really should start with a Python tutorial.<br>
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More comments:<br>
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<li>You did not type that "into the MS-DOS Commands", but rather
to Python (or more accurately, to the Python interpreter).</li>
<li>Python does not have "commands", but rather "statements".</li>
<li>There is a module named strings, and you could import it (to
use Python's terminology) with the "import strings" statement,
but there's probably not much need to do so. But then the
"strings" statement you typed would not produce an error
message, but would just print out a line informing you that
strings is a module -- not very useful.</li>
<li>Rather than using Python in an MS-DOS window, you should
consider trying statements and programs in Idle -- A reasonable
GUI environment to experiment with Python. It came with your
installation of Python.</li>
<li>In the future, questions should be accompanied with
information about your version of Python (Python2 or Python3)
and the platform you are running it on. (Apparently Windows in
your case.)</li>
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Gary Herron<br>
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