New To Python.. Would Like A Little Help Please

[noob_Lance]

Hey, Im new to programming in python and have done some work in the terminal.. but would like to make an actual program that i can run thru the terminal. How can i do this.. Thanks For the help..

Regards
~Lance

[redactech]

type your program in an editor name it *.py than execute it through the console...

[knipknap]

Try this (http://www.google.com/search?q=python%20tutorial%20simple), the first link looks very promising.

[greenway]

If you just mean running your Python script through the compiler on the command line just type "python whatever.py".

[mostwanted]

Make a text-file, throw in your code, on the first line you write

#!/usr/bin/python

Or whatever the path is.

Then you do, from the terminal

chmod 755 myPythonScript.py

and

./myPythonScript.py

will run it.

Copy it into /usr/bin/ to run it like a normal command (you might want to remove the py extension as well for aesthetics).

[gord]

you also might want to check out dive into python (http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html), its very good and covers everything from setting up your first .py to web services and then some more.