创建框架项目目录

Question

I am a rookie in Python who has been working on Learn Python the Hard Way. This whole process goes well as I have a smattering knowledge on Python until I march into ex46 where I get stuck in the 'Creating the skeleton Project Directory' section. I have no idea where I should run those commands guided on this book. Following are the excerpt of this part:

First, create the structure of your skeleton directory with these commands:

 $ mkdir projects $ cd projects/ $ mkdir skeleton $ cd skeleton $ mkdir bin $ mkdir NAME $ mkdir tests $ mkdir docs 

I have tried to run these commands in Windows Powershell, only to be warned that these commands can't be recognized. I also fumbled to execute them in Pycharm, but all in vain. Could someone point out how I could get it done?

In addition, I am somewhat curious about this method because there seems to be handy way to approach this on Pycharm. Could I achieve the same goal on that?

I am using Python 2.7 and all previous exercises operate well until ex46.

Answer 1

You get that error because you're typing a superfluous $ at the beginning of each command. That $ is the (Linux) command prompt . On your Windows machine, it's something like C:\\WINDOWS\\system32> . Don't type that.

Just type

mkdir projects 

and press Enter . That creates a folder (directory) named "projects". Then type

cd projects

and press Enter . That changes the current directory to that new folder you just created. And so on.

_{Content migrated from comments since this is what actually solved the issue.}

Answer 2

Remove the dollar sign $ from the statement, as this is just the symbol used as a CLI prompt not part of the statement itself.

Then type the mkdir command and it should work eg

mkdir my_directory