🔒 Very basic issue

[dull hearth]

Hey I'm extremely new to coding and I am going through CS50-P

My code works in the bug terminal but doesn't work when i press go in the normal window. it says santax error but its identical to the CS50-P code and it worked yesterday.

Any help would be appreciated. Im guessing its a quick fix?

[umbral knoll]

@dull hearth

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[eager forum]

!repl you're inside the python interactive console (aka REPL), you gotta exit it before running the program

[umbral knoll]

Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL)

A REPL is an interactive shell where you can execute individual lines of code one at a time, like so:

>>> x = 5
>>> x + 2
7
>>> for i in range(3):
...     print(i)
...
0
1
2
>>>

To enter the REPL, run python (py on Windows) in the command line without any arguments. The >>> or ... at the start of some lines are prompts to enter code, and indicate that you are in the Python REPL. Any other lines show the output of the code.

Trying to execute commands for the command-line (such as pip install xyz) in the REPL will throw an error. To run these commands, exit the REPL first by running exit() and then run the original command.

[eager forum]

Just exit() and hit enter

[dull hearth]

in the terminal?

[eager forum]

Yep

[wet nymph]

VSCode enters the syntax it needs to down in the terminal in order to execute your python script. It can't do that correctly when you're in the REPL as has been described.

[dull hearth]

how can i tell that I was in REPL?

[wet nymph]

>>>

[dull hearth]

ahh ok thanks

i really appreciate both your help

[wet nymph]

You're welcome!

[umbral knoll]

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