[Tutor] newb problem running the translator (fwd)

[Max Noel]

On Apr 9, 2005, at 10:36, Danny Yoo wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:03:58 EDT
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> Subject: newb problem running the translator
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>     I will try to make this quick. I am a newb to python, and 
> programming at
> that, but i am realy interested. I have been looking at simple 
> programs to be
> run through the shell but i cannot figure out the translator. When i 
> save
> program i have tried to tell it to opoen it in the translator. I have 
> been looking
> through several websites and looked through the documents my python
> installation came with. On one computer i am running Windows Xp and on 
> another win98SE.
> If you could explain to me how to open a program through the 
> translator i
> would appreciate it alot.

	What exactly do you call the "translator"?
	If you mean the compiler, it's normal that you can't find it: there is 
none. Python is an interpreted language (well, bytecode, but let's not 
get into that, shall we?). To run your Python programs, you call the 
Python interpreter on them: "python foo.py", for example, runs the 
foo.py program.

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