[Tutor] Beginners Book, Python and PyScripter

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:44:14AM +0000, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 04/12/2018 23:52, James Stapleton-Cotton wrote:
> 
> > USERs-MacBook-Pro:~ user$ python hello.py
> > python: can't open file 'hello.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> You need to provide the full path to the Python file.
> 
> > I previously created a python file called 'hello.py' using the PyCharmEdu
> > editor (as instructed). This file is saved in my 'Documents' in a folder
> > called 'Pycharm Projects' 
> 
> So you would have needed to type
> 
> user$ python "~/Documents/Pycharm Projects/hello.py"

To be absolutely clear here, the "user$" part is the prompt, you don't 
type that.



-- 
Steve