Question

I just started and am also using a mac. I'm more than a little confused about saving and running programs. I thought I'd completed skillset0 but I think I either made a syntax error or my brains exploded. Either way, this was my solution

x= raw_input ('what is your last name? ')
y=raw_input ('what is your date of birth?')
print x + y

what steps am I missing?

Answer 1

Hey fuegopazzo,
Your solution looks perfectly valid, what exactly is your problem / what kind of output are you seeing?

I ran the following:

x = raw_input ('what is your last name? ')
y = raw_input ('what is your date of birth? ')
print x + " " + y

and this was my output:

what is your last name? NixonInnes

what is your date of birth? 16/10/1987
NixonInnes 16/10/1987

Answer 2

Are you entering the code into the shell or the editor in IDLE?

Answer 3

If you're code is in a file named foo.txt, in your home directory, the following command will execute it in Terminal:

python foo.txt

Answer 4

You should always name python files as py file types, not txt

Answer 5

You need to save the scripts as foo.py then run them with "python foo.py" from terminal excluding the quotes.

You might find this useful for your particular OS. Hope it helps.

https://docs.python.org/2/using/mac.html#the-ide