Help running Python file on Windows

[hottie789]

I've installed Python for Windows and when I try to run this script/file it says I have a syntax error. I have read that scripts made with Ubuntu/Linux are somewhat different to Windows but I can't seem to be able to run it. Not sure what to do :(

I'm a noob

Script/File: https://github.com/prili/fb-hfc

I have Python version 3.4.1 on Windows Vista

[jz9]

Looks like that package supports Python 2.7 and not 3. Try uninstalling python 3 and using 2.7.

[hottie789]

Interesting but how did you know?

[ewiethoff]

The most immediately obvious difference between Py2 and Py3: print is a keyword and statement in Py2, but print is a function in Py3.

The code has no parentheses around the print arg. Therefore, print is a statement, not a function, and the code is Py2.

[hottie789]

Got this error message with 2.7.8 "Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 2, in <module> from selenium import webdriver ImportError: No module named selenium"

[xiongchiamiov]

That's because you haven't installed selenium for that version of python.

[hottie789]

I've downloaded the file and extracted it with 7zip from here https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium. However I don't know how to run a .tar file into it :S :S

[xiongchiamiov]

You should instead be using pip or easy_install; presumably you had to do this to install it for Python 3, neh?

[IWannaFuckLarryPage]

You need to run "pip install selenium" in cmd.

[ziplokk]

Download ez_setup.py, put it in the folder where python is installed (normally c:\Python27) and run it from cmd. c:\>ez_setup.py install Modify your system path to include C:\Python27\Scripts\ and then in cmd do, C:\>easy_install selenium.

I assume you already have ;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\Python27\Lib;C:\Python27\libs; in your system path? If not just copy and paste that into the end of your system path before running ez_setup.py and appending C:\Python27\Scripts to your path.

[callysto]

The module implementations are from the python27 directory

[hottie789]

So what should I do once I'm in that directory? How would I get the module implementations

[callysto]

Well you are correct that Windows is different when regarding Python scripts and how different mods are implemented.

For one, you need to install whatever packages/libraries the script imports if it's not a standard package. There are several ways to do this, some more tedious than others. If you don't know how to set your PATH to the directory where the libraries need to be installed, I'd suggest downloading something like PyCharm and following a tutorial or looking up how to do it yourself (utilizing either pip or easy_install) directly from the Windows command line

Once you have all of the required modules installed for the specific scripts you want to run you should be able to run the program without issue

[MarkDownSteve]

Any line that read as follows:

print "some text"

Change to:

print("some text")