[Tutor] Issues In Terminal

[Bill DeBroglie]

On Sep 26, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Bill DeBroglie <bill.debroglie at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> Is this what you mean?
>
> 	matthew-parrillas-macbook:Dawson_Book matthewparrilla$ #!/usr/bin/ 
> env python
> 	matthew-parrillas-macbook:Dawson_Book matthewparrilla$ ./chapter_2.py
> 	./chapter_2.py: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `"Hello  
> World"'
> 	./chapter_2.py: line 1: `print("Hello World")'
>
> If so, obviously still no dice.
>
> No, I meant that you should edit your .py file and add
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> as the first line, THEN try to run it.

BINGO!
>
> Right now what's happening is that you're handing a line of Python  
> script to the shell and asking it to run it; the shell is telling  
> you (oh-so-politely) "what the hell is this?"  You need to give it a  
> clue.

Thank you for the translation. So I need to do this with every .py  
file? My friend who was helping me (he's only been at this a few  
months) doesn't need to do this. Is that possible or is he just  
misleading me?

>
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