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You should be good to go.
You should be good to go.


Open up Terminal.app (under Applications -> Utilities).
Open up Terminal.app (under Applications -> Utilities), and type in

<ol>

<br />
This Terminal contains something called a command prompt. This command prompt is another way of navigating your computer and running programs -- just textually instead of graphically. We are going to be running Python and Python scripts from this command prompt.
</li>
<li>Test your Python install at the command prompt. Type


<pre>
<pre>
python
python
</pre>
</pre>

and hit enter. You should see something like
<pre>
Python 2.7.1 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2011, 17:44:40)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
</pre>
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* You just started Python! The <code>>>></code> indicates that you are at a new type of prompt -- a Python prompt. The command prompt let's you navigate your computer and run programs, and the Python prompt lets you write and run Python code interactively.<br />

* If the Python version number (2.7.1 in the example above) is not a number between 2.4 and 2.7 (ignoring the number after the second dot), tell a staff member.
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<li>To exit the Python prompt, type

<pre>
exit()
</pre>

and press Enter. This will take you back to the Linux command prompt.</li>
</ol>

You might need to install a package called python-tk.

'''Success!'''

You have tested your Python installation.

[[Boston Python Workshop 5/Friday|&laquo; Back to the Friday setup page]]

Revision as of 00:04, 2 June 2012

You should be good to go.

Open up Terminal.app (under Applications -> Utilities), and type in 

python
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