Re: [pygame] Help with the 3rd Lecture, first tutorial

[Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michael George wrote:
> Everything after the > is what you type at the dos prompt.  Everything
> after the >>> is what you type at the python prompt.  Everything else is
> what you should expect the system to respond

It's a little more complicated than that, of course:

>>     >>> file = open("file.txt")
>>     >>> Traceback (etc...)

You aren't supposed to type "Traceback (etc...)". Lukasz believes you
may get a traceback here from an error (for example, a file-not-found
error).

>>     >>> [ctrl+d]

This presumably means "press Ctrl-D" rather than "type [ctrl+d]". I'm
not sure if this is correct; I thought on Windows, EOF is Ctrl-Z? But
I wouldn't swear to it.

>>     > cd files
>>     > dir
>>     file.txt
>>     > python
>>     >>> file = open("file.txt")    (and it work!)

And here "(and it work!)" is presumably a comment.

However, if I were you, Kevin Hayes, I would refine what I meant by
"won't load". I believe Lukasz believes that you are getting "Cannot
find file" errors, and he is trying to show you how to find your way
around DOS and how your current directory interacts with Python.

If you are getting file-not-found errors, it may help to explain your
situation further -- what directory are you running Python from? What
directory is chimp.bmp in? And so on.

Ethan
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