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laithis · 03-09-2009, 09:49 PM

help...
it's been a while since I did command prompt stuff. Working Win XP and I installed ActivePython 2.6.1.

When I double-click the Python26 application, it opens a window, and if I wanted to run a script, I'd type in the following, right?

C:\scriptnamehere.py filename C:\pathtodestination "MyName" 12345678

I obviously have something wrong because I get an error saying:

File "<stdin>", line 1
C:\scriptnamehere.py filename C:\pathtodestination "MyName" 12345678
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Did I miss something obvious? Sorry for being so rusty with this - i'm all the way back to n00b status!!

Thanks for any help you can give!

03-09-2009, 09:49 PM	#33
laithis Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: kindle-soon, or sony ereader	help... it's been a while since I did command prompt stuff. Working Win XP and I installed ActivePython 2.6.1. When I double-click the Python26 application, it opens a window, and if I wanted to run a script, I'd type in the following, right? C:\scriptnamehere.py filename C:\pathtodestination "MyName" 12345678 I obviously have something wrong because I get an error saying: File "<stdin>", line 1 C:\scriptnamehere.py filename C:\pathtodestination "MyName" 12345678 SyntaxError: invalid syntax Did I miss something obvious? Sorry for being so rusty with this - i'm all the way back to n00b status!! Thanks for any help you can give! Last edited by laithis; 03-09-2009 at 10:10 PM. Reason: incomplete post