[Tutor] Trouble getting started

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 Budman4106@aol.com wrote:

> Here's a screen shot of whats going on. I'm just getting started and
> dont understand what this syntax error means.

Hi Budman,

I can't look at the screenshot at the moment (I'm using a text terminal at
the moment).  Can you cut-and-paste the error message?  Don't worry if it
looks ugly; as long as we can see the error and the 'traceback', we should
be able to figure things out on this end.


> Also when I try to run the "Hello World" Script it says the python
> buffer has not been saved and I need to know how to save the buffer. I
> know I'm being a pain but I want to learn some sort of programming just
> for fun and Python seems to be a good place to start...... any help
> would be appreciated

Have you had a chance to look at:

    http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro

It's a tutorial that might clear up that message about not saving the
Python buffer.  All that IDLE is saying is that, before you run your
program in IDLE, you should save it to disk, just in case bad things
happen.  It's a safety feature, although it can get annoying in the heat
of programming.  *grin*


If you have more questions, please feel free to ask them on Tutor!  Good
luck to you.