SyntaxError when trying to execute code on Windows

[Fred0n]

I'm a brand new baby when it comes to programming. just want to run simple hello world doc from a different directory in Windows native Dos

Error:
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
>>> Users\fredt\OneDrive\Documents\ hello.py
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    Users\fredt\OneDrive\Documents\hello.py

^

its simple I know I'm starting to feel like if I were to catch fire I'd burn really slowly..PLZ HELP

[ndc85430]

It looks like you're trying to run that from inside the Python shell. That's wrong. At the Windows prompt, you should be running python <path to script>.

[buran]

have a look at https://python-forum.io/Thread-How-to-Ex...ython-code