Newbie ?? Running hello1.py and compiling?

[OneDay at ATime.net]

Thanks for your answer, getting started is the hardest part.  Al 

In article <pRMe5.76$ef4.30001 at news01.micron.net>, "Greg Fortune" 
<gfortune at micron.net> wrote:
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><OneDay at ATime.net> wrote in message news:8lejm0$d3o$1 at earth.superlink.net...
>> Hello all,
>>
>>        At Python's site I started with Example 2.1, Our First Program. I
>> opened IDLE, Opened a new window and copied/wrote the commands
>> and saved it as hello1.py.
>>
>>         To run the program it says to "run the script as usual"
>>                                 $ python hello1.py
>>
>>         Where do I type this, I don't know what "as usual" means.
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>It sounds like you are running Windows.  Assuming that is true, pop up a
>console (MS-Dos window) and change to the directory containing the file you
>created.  Then type "python hello1.py".  All that does is tell python to run
>your script.
>
>
>>
>>         After I wrote hello1.py, I noticed a compiled version in my
>explorer.
>> Which I can run from there. How did that happen?
>
>Sounds like you got hello1.py to run.  Whenever a script is run, it checks
>for a compiled version of the file.  If none exist, it compiles the script
>into byte code.  If the .py file is newer than the .pyc (compiled file), the
>..py file is compiled again.
>
>>
>>          When I copied/wrote hello2.py, following the above steps, I did
>not
>> get a compiled version. What did I do wrong?
>
>Hmmmm, must not have ran this one.
>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your time and patience,
>> Al
>
>Not a problem ;)
>good luck,
>
>Greg Fortune
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