How to install and run a script?
ryguy7272
ryanshuell at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 22:05:01 EDT 2014
On Sunday, October 12, 2014 4:18:19 PM UTC-4, ryguy7272 wrote:
> I'm an absolute noob to Python, although I have been programming in several other languages for over 10 years.
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> I'm trying to install and run some scripts, and I'm not having much success.
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> I followed the steps at this site.
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> https://docs.python.org/2/install/
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> I have Python 2.7.6 Shell.
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> python setup.py install
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> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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> setup.py beautifulsoup
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> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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> If I got to File > Open . . . . navigate to a folder and open the setup.py file and hit F5 . . . . it looks like it runs, but I can't tell what it does for sure, and then nothing works after that. For instance, I downloaded something called 'Flask'. I put that folder in my Python27 folder, and typed 'pip install Flask' and I keep getting errors.
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> Any idea how to run a simple program???
Ahhhhh!!! I didn't know I needed to run it from the command prompt! Ok, not it makes sense, and everything works.
Thanks to all!
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