can someone walk me through how to run a python script?

I downloaded python and a friend wrote a script for me, but i'm not sure how to imput it.

iirc, just run this:



you can also refer to the documentation:
https://docs.python.org/2/faq/windows.html

This post was edited by carteblanche on Oct 21 2014 10:10pm

Open Command Prompt or Terminal, change to directory to where you have the script saved,

In Windows:

cd C:\User\%username%\Desktop

In UNIX-like system:

cd ~/Desktop

In a UNIX-like environment you may also have to give it executable permissions

chmod a+x scriptname.py

Once you're in the same directory as the file, or you have the $PATH variable pointing to a directory the script is in, you will be able to run it below.

To run as-is:

python scriptname.py

To run the script interactively and work with things in real-time:

python -i scriptname.py

If you type python -h you can get more run-time options.

If you are using Windows and downloaded Python from the main website I highly recommend removing Python and downloading the Anaconda installer.

I have to ask: how is this related to C/C++/C#?

Python is babbys first C :^)

This post was edited by killg0re on Oct 22 2014 05:35am

"python myfile.py" I did this. I get a syntax error. I checked m directory. I'm in Python27. So I put the myfile.py into Python27. It still doesn't work.

Copy the code here too so we can figure out where your friend went wrong. In code brackets

This post was edited by killg0re on Oct 23 2014 04:01pm