On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Jenacee Owens <jenaceerowens at gmail.com> 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? Nothing to do with DOS, there is no strings Try this: >>>my_string = "hi there" >>>print my_string > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com