Can't get python to run in cmd

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Hello All,

I’m trying to learn some coding skills to help out with my job so I’m going through a course. However, when I try to run the simple print(‘Hello World’) scripted through the cmd I get the following error. I have already tried adding to the path and C:/Windows/system 32/ python --version and get the correct version as the output. Not sure where to go from here.

Input through cmd:

C:\(file path)\python hello.py

Output:

File "C:\(file path)\hello.py", line 1
     Python 3.10.8 (tags/v3.10.8:aaaf517, Oct 11 2022, 16:50:30) [MSC v.1933 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32        ^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Code hello.py:

#Python 3.10.8 (tags/v3.10.8:aaaf517, Oct 11 2022, 16:50:30) [MSC v.1933 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
#Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
print("Hello World")

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I’m trying to learn some coding skills to help out with my job so I’m
going through a course. However, when I try to run the simple
print(‘Hello World’) scripted through the cmd I get the following
error. […]

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Please just paste the output dirctly into your message between triple
backticks, like this:

 ```
 your pasted
 output goes here
 ```

Email users (like me) don’t see the screenshots (I just had to visit the
forum), we can’t copy/paste from screenshots, and the visually impaired
have trouble with screenshots.

That said:

I think you’ve pasted in a complete transcript of a Python interactive
session into your hello.py Python script. Most of the verbiage is not
Python source code, it’s output.

Here’s a transcript from my terminal here:

 [~]fleet2*> python3
 Python 3.10.6 (main, Aug 11 2022, 13:47:18) [Clang 12.0.0 
 (clang-1200.0.32.29)] on darwin
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
 information.
 >>> print("Hello world!")
 Hello world!
 >>>

The only stuff I’ve typed is python3 at my shell prompt to start the
Python interpreter, and then I typed print("Hello world!") at the
>>> interactive Python prompt.

Can you show what’s in your hello.py file? Again, copy/paste directly
into the reply message between triple backticks. A typical hello world
script might look like this:

 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 print("Hello world!")

in its entirely. And the first line is a comment! (Most Python scripts
commence with this special “shebang” comment, which makes them work
seamlessly on most systems as commands; do not worry about this for
now.)

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au

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Thanks Cameron,

I have updated my post with the information you’re looking for hopefully.

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It looks like you are showing a different file than the file which produced the traceback. The hash character # does not show in the traceback. Did you change the directory (cd) to the directory with the correct hello.py?

Do you have a reason to have the first two lines in your program file? If not, delete them and leave just the actual python code:

print("Hello World")
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Please just post replies for updates. I’m on email and do not visit the
web side very much. So I won’t see your updates until I make the time to
go there, and then I probably need to decode them from what your
original post used to say.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au

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I’ve looked at your updated post. Your hello.py shows commented out #Python etc lines, which are fine.

But the error message recites a line with no leading comment (#) marker. That suggests that the current code in hello.py is not the version of the code which produced the error message.

Cheers,
Cameron