pygtk error?

[chris200x9]

hi, I'm trying to make my first GUI apps, I installed pygtk but when I follow a tutorial and try to execute this:




# Load GTK
import gtk

# Load our own source code from gtktest.py
# There you can find the main class gtktest()
from gtktest import gtktest

# Load sugar libraries
from sugar.activity import activity

class gtktestActivity(activity.Activity):
def __init__(self, handle):
activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle)
self._name = handle

# Set title for our Activity
self.set_title('gtk test')

# Attach sugar toolbox (Share, ...)
toolbox = activity.ActivityToolbox(self)
self.set_toolbox(toolbox)
toolbox.show()

# Create the main container
self._main_view = gtk.VBox()

# Import our class gtktest():

# Step 1: Load class, which creates gtktest.widget
self.gtktest = gtktest()

# Step 2: Remove the widget's parent
if self.gtktest.widget.parent:
self.gtktest.widget.parent.remove(self.gtktest.wid get)

# Step 3: We attach that widget to our window
self._main_view.pack_start(self.gtktest.widget)

# Display everything
self.gtktest.widget.show()
self._main_view.show()
self.set_canvas(self._main_view)
self.show_all()




I get this error:


chris200x9@chris200x9-desktop:~$ ~/untitled.py
/home/chris200x9/untitled.py: line 2: import: command not found
from: can't read /var/mail/gtktest
from: can't read /var/mail/sugar.activity
/home/chris200x9/untitled.py: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/home/chris200x9/untitled.py: line 11: `class gtktestActivity(activity.Activity):'


what am I doing wrong?

[Can+~]

Sugar libraries? You don't need those (Whatever they are)

Follow the pygtk tutorial:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

[twisted_steel]

what am I doing wrong?

The shell is trying to execute the first non-comment line of your program, which in your case is "import gtk". You should add in a line before everything "#!/usr/bin/python" which will let your shell know what to run to interpret all your code in the rest of the file. The beginning would then look like:


#!/usr/bin/python

# Load GTK
import gtkIf you have not already done so, be sure to make your script executable.

[WW]

You could also run your program with the python command. E.g.


$ python myapp.py

Then you don't need the first line to be #!/usr/bin/python (but you might as well put the line in; then either method of running your program will work).

[jespdj]

The #! line is called the shebang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29), and you should include it as the first line in your program to let the shell know how to run it.