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<li>Start up a Terminal. You can find the Terminal application through Spotlight, or navigate to Applications/Utilities/Terminal
The 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.
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<li>Test your Python install at the command prompt. Type
<pre>
</pre>
and hit enter. You should see something like
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>>>
</pre>
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.
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<li>To exit the Python prompt, type
<pre>
</pre>
and press Enter. This will take you back to the
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Revision as of 17:53, 12 May 2011
OS X ships with Python installed, so the goal of this page is to make sure you can start a Terminal and run Python from the command line.
- Start up a Terminal. You can find the Terminal application through Spotlight, or navigate to Applications/Utilities/Terminal. The 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.
- Test your Python install at the command prompt. Type
python
and hit enter. You should see something like
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>
You just started Python! The
>>>
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. - To exit the Python prompt, type
exit()
and press Enter. This will take you back to the OS X command prompt.
Success!