Confused newbie

Robert Amesz reqhye72zux at mailexpire.com
Sun Sep 16 09:44:07 EDT 2001


Ron White wrote:

> I downloaded Python 2.1.1 (a little over 6 meg) and installed it in
> a win95 machine.
> 
> I am going through Josh Cogliati's Non-Programmers Tutorial for
> Python and there are several questions I hope I can get answers to.
> First, is there a document which tells you how to indent the
> various cammand lines?  I have a lot of trouble with that.
> 
> Secondly, I have typed in a program for printing out a calendar,
> but when I try to run it I get the error that this program has
> committed a fatal error and will be shut down.
> I thought maybe I didn't have the calendar library, but it appears
> that I do in lib.

That's not it: if the calendar module didn't exist Python would print a 
message to that effect.

Also, I'm not too sure that Python 2.1.1 runs on an unmodified Win95 
machine, you might need to update it somewhat.


Robert Amesz



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