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Tom Avos [mailto:tomavos@yahoo.com.ar] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:56
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Flynn,
Stephen (L & P - IT)<br>
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<div style="background: white;" class="yiv810234902MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">I followed
your advice, but still no luck... I get the following error
("triangulo" highlighted):</span></font></div>
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SyntaxError: invalid syntax<br>
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Flynn, Stephen (L & P - IT)"
<Steve.Flynn@capita.co.uk><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para</span></b><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span></b> Tom Avos <tomavos@yahoo.com.ar> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviado:</span></b> jueves, 14 de junio de
2012 12:36<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asunto:</span></b> RE: [Tutor] Trouble
running Python on Windows Vista</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></div>
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Python. I have to work with a Notebook running Widows Vista Home Premium.(have
no other choice)</span></font></div>
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<div style="background: white;" class="yiv810234902MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">It works fine
when working in Interactive Mode or by Opening a .py file from the IDLE
and then running it by pressing F5, but I can not run .py files by invoking
them from the prompt (neither from IDLE nor Dos Command Line); </span></font></div>
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<div style="background: white;" class="yiv810234902MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Every time I
try to do this I get the following error:(In this case I'm tryig to invoke triangulo.py
saved in C:\python27); </span></font></div>
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triangulo.py</span></font></div>
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(most recent call last):<br>
File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module><br>
triangulo.py<br>
NameError: name 'triangulo' is not defined<br>
>>> </span></font></div>
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<div style="background: white;" class="yiv810234902MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The same happens
for every file I want to run by calling them from the prompt, although if I
double click on any .py file it runs ok.</span></font></div>
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installed Python as follows:</span></font></div>
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<div style="background: white;" class="yiv810234902MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">I've
downloaded the <a href="http://ar.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.msi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Python 2.7.3
Windows Installer</span></font></a> from <a href="http://www.python.org/download/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.python.org/download/</a>.
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<div style="background: white;" class="yiv810234902MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Once I've got
it I run the installer and Python was installed on C:\Python27, and I've added
Python to the my directory by doing set path=%path%;C:\python27.</span></font></div>
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will be very welcome :-)</span></font></div>
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