IDLE vs Command Line

[Jesse B.]

I like to work with xemacs, so I've been coding modules with xemacs and
running them using the dos prompt (using windows port of xemacs). Some
scripts that work fine with IDLE don't work at the dos prompt. For example:

import random

for i in range(10):
x = random.random()
print x

This simple script doesn't work if I use the command prompt, with this
syntax: python random.py

I am just wondering why that is.

[Mark Hadfield]

Jesse B. wrote:

I like to work with xemacs, so I've been coding modules with xemacs and
running them using the dos prompt (using windows port of xemacs). Some
scripts that work fine with IDLE don't work at the dos prompt. For example:

import random

for i in range(10):
x = random.random()
print x

This simple script doesn't work if I use the command prompt, with this
syntax: python random.py

I am just wondering why that is.

Because you have given the script the same name as the module you're
importing, so the script tries to import itself?
--
Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.********@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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[Jesse B.]

Jesse B. wrote:

I like to work with xemacs, so I've been coding modules with xemacs and
running them using the dos prompt (using windows port of xemacs). Some
scripts that work fine with IDLE don't work at the dos prompt. For example:
import random

for i in range(10):
x = random.random()
print x

This simple script doesn't work if I use the command prompt, with this
syntax: python random.py

I am just wondering why that is.

Because you have given the script the same name as the module you're
importing, so the script tries to import itself?

That makes sense.

[Tom B.]

"Jesse B." <jb*******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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I like to work with xemacs, so I've been coding modules with xemacs and
running them using the dos prompt (using windows port of xemacs). Some
scripts that work fine with IDLE don't work at the dos prompt. For example:
import random

for i in range(10):
x = random.random()
print x

This simple script doesn't work if I use the command prompt, with this
syntax: python random.py

I am just wondering why that is.

It is running the copy of random.py from the python lib not your random.py

Tom

P.S. it is not trying to import itself!

[Jesse B.]

Thanks for the feedback. It's happened before, but I was prob using the same
mistake.

"Tom B." <sb******@commspeed.net> wrote in message
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"Jesse B." <jb*******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:8P********************@adelphia.com...

I like to work with xemacs, so I've been coding modules with xemacs and
running them using the dos prompt (using windows port of xemacs). Some
scripts that work fine with IDLE don't work at the dos prompt. For example:

import random

for i in range(10):
x = random.random()
print x

This simple script doesn't work if I use the command prompt, with this
syntax: python random.py

I am just wondering why that is.

It is running the copy of random.py from the python lib not your

random.py
Tom

P.S. it is not trying to import itself!