MS-DOS Commands

Sun Jan 11 17:33:45 EST 2015

On 01/11/2015 02:13 PM, Jenacee Owens wrote:
> I'm new to python and every time i type a command into the MS-DOS Commands it looks like this.
>>>>> strings
> Traceback<most recent call last:
> file "<stdin>";line 1 in <module>
> name error:name strings'is not defined
>> how can i fix this?

What where you trying to accomplish, and what did you expect that to 
do? It's not a valid Python statement, so an error message that says as 
much is to be expected.
You really should start with a Python tutorial.
More comments:
 * You did not type that "into the MS-DOS Commands", but rather to
 Python (or more accurately, to the Python interpreter).
 * Python does not have "commands", but rather "statements".
 * There is a module named strings, and you could import it (to use
 Python's terminology) with the "import strings" statement, but
 there's probably not much need to do so. But then the "strings"
 statement you typed would not produce an error message, but would
 just print out a line informing you that strings is a module -- not
 very useful.
 * Rather than using Python in an MS-DOS window, you should consider
 trying statements and programs in Idle -- A reasonable GUI
 environment to experiment with Python. It came with your
 installation of Python.
 * In the future, questions should be accompanied with information
 about your version of Python (Python2 or Python3) and the platform
 you are running it on. (Apparently Windows in your case.)
Gary Herron
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