13-07-2010, 06:34 AM
This is the first of many tutorials to come on how to program in Python, let's start it off simple with a hello world program.
The first line of a python script should always be "#!/usr/bin/env python" this is there because on Linux, python may be installed in different directorys, it'll figure out the correct location of python from $PATH and make that as the interpreter for rest of the script.
[code=python]
#!/usr/bin/env python
[/code]
The print command is pretty self explanatory, it simply means print or show the words "Hello World".
[code=python]
print "Hello world"
[/code]
The finished script, yes it's that easy.
[code=python]
#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Hello world"
[/code]
When running a python script in Linux you should use the following syntax. You need to state that the file is a python file first, and then enter the file you wish to run.
The first line of a python script should always be "#!/usr/bin/env python" this is there because on Linux, python may be installed in different directorys, it'll figure out the correct location of python from $PATH and make that as the interpreter for rest of the script.
[code=python]
#!/usr/bin/env python
[/code]
The print command is pretty self explanatory, it simply means print or show the words "Hello World".
[code=python]
print "Hello world"
[/code]
The finished script, yes it's that easy.
[code=python]
#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Hello world"
[/code]
When running a python script in Linux you should use the following syntax. You need to state that the file is a python file first, and then enter the file you wish to run.
Code:
python script.py