NameError name python is not defined

Question

Am encountering this error in Windows Command line done a wide search but could not get a perfect answer Please find the error below and help in solving   python Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  NameError  name  python  is not defined  gt  gt  gt    Thanks in Advance

User · Answer

It looks like you are trying to start the Python interpreter by running the command python.

However the interpreter is already started. It is interpreting python as a name of a variable, and that name is not defined.

Try this instead and you should hopefully see that your Python installation is working as expected:

print("Hello world!")

User · Answer

When you run the Windows Command Prompt  and type in python  it starts the Python interpreter   Typing it again tries to interpret python as a variable  which doesn t exist and thus won t work   Microsoft Windows  Version 6 1 7601  Copyright  c  2009 Microsoft Corporation   All rights reserved   C  Users USER gt python Python 2 7 5  default  May 15 2013  22 43 36   MSC v 1500 32 bit  Intel   on win32 Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt  python Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  NameError  name  python  is not defined  gt  gt  gt  print  interpreter has started   interpreter has started  gt  gt  gt  quit     leave the interpreter  and go back to the command line  C  Users USER gt    If you re not doing this from the command line  and instead running the Python interpreter  python exe or IDLE s shell  directly  you are not in the Windows Command Line  and python is interpreted as a variable  which you have not defined

[python] NameError: name 'python' is not defined

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