Boston Python Workshop 8/Friday/Linux interactive Python

Practice starting and exiting Python
 Open a Terminal command prompt. You can find the Terminal application at Applications/Accessories/Terminal, or it may already be on your menu bar. To start Python, type

python

at the command prompt and press enter. You should see something like Python 2.7.5 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2011, 17:44:40) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>

The  indicates that you are at a Python prompt. Exit the Python prompt by typing

exit

and pressing enter. Now you're back at the Linux command prompt (which looks something like ). 

Success!
Practice these steps until you feel comfortable navigating to a command prompt, starting Python, and exiting Python.

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