New to Python-- Help

Ravi Teja webraviteja at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 17:36:35 EDT 2006


Philippe Martin wrote:
> John & Mary Cook wrote:
>
> > I just installed Python on Windows XP Pro.  When I enter 'python' at the
> > >>> prompt in Pythonwin IDE I get the following:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> > Name Error: name 'python' is not defined
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > J. T. Cook
>
> Did you install Python, or Pythonwin ?
>
> Cannot use #2 without #1.

He probably used ActivePython. It includes both. Besides PythonWin IDE
won't start without Python :-)

John:
Try this tutorial. It does not assume a programming background.
http://honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/

You already started Python when you started PythonWin IDE. You won't
need to type python in it again :-)

In the tutorial I linked, PythonWin is analogous to IDLE (another IDE)
mentioned in it. You should also have IDLE installed in your menus.




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