Brand new to python in Linux

[iamBevan]

Hi there, sorry for the extreamly newbie post here, but i've only ever programmed with PASCAL in Windows. The Python Interpreter is installed, but i just don't know how to use it, and how to compile my code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.

- Bevan

[Ozitraveller]

http://www.python.org/

Using the Python Interpreter
Invoking the Interpreter
http://docs.python.org/tut/node4.html

This might get you started.

IDLE is useful

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/idle.html

[thumper]

Just invoke the python interpreter from the command line and you are away laughing.

$ python
Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 21:51:02)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print 'Hello world'
Hello world
>>>

[Wybiral]

You can also save your programs as "*.py" and execute them from the command line.


# Save this as hello.py

print "Hello world!"


Then execute it from the command line with:


python hello.py

[dwblas]

This is a link to online books and tutorials
http://python-forum.org/py/viewtopic.php?t=12&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[Choad]

You can also save your programs as "*.py" and execute them from the command line.


# Save this as hello.py

print "Hello world!"


Then execute it from the command line with:


python hello.py

or put

#!/usr/bin/env python

at the beginning of the file, then you can execute it regardless.

[stani]

In case you are looking for a good editor, try SPE which has an interpreter built in:
http://pythonide.stani.be

There will be a new release soon which is very focused on running smooth on Ubuntu. You can also try out the old release:

sudo apt-get install spe

Stani