Why can I not see the code correctly in Python IDLE.?

[Trump]

I am using Python IDLE 2.7.18.4 on Windows 10. I copied a code from a pdf in my editor and made it as comments. The code look like this in my editor:

but when I past the code here (in this forum), I see it correctly as I see some parts of the code are not as comments and thus I got an error:

##import arcpy
##infc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
##
outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
##
arcpy.Copy_management(infc, outfc)

and I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/ArcPy_Ex/test.py", line 5, in <module>
outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
NameError: name 'arcpy' is not defined


I wonder How I can see the code correctly in the Python IDLE editor?

[deanhystad]

You are getting an error because of line 4, not because of anything in the comments. If you want to do this:

outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

You need to first do this:

import arcpy

You should not use Python 2.7, use a current version of python.

[Trump]

I posted something here but i want to delete it. Can I delete a post here?how?

[deanhystad]

# is the start of a line comment in Python. Everything following # in the line is a comment. Don't depend on syntax highlighting.

The error message told you where the error happened.

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/ArcPy_Ex/test.py", line 5, in <module>
outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
NameError: name 'arcpy' is not defined

Note the lack of a comment character in outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

[Trump]

# is the start of a line comment in Python. Everything following # in the line is a comment. Don't depend on syntax highlighting.

The error message told you where the error happened.

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/ArcPy_Ex/test.py", line 5, in <module>
outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
NameError: name 'arcpy' is not defined

Note the lack of a comment character in outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

Thanks for the reply. As I posted later (the image I posted, can it be seen? ), it is seen differently and I woder, now, how I can see the code in the Python IDLE like it is seen here?

[deanhystad]

Access denied on viewing the image.

[Trump]

Access denied on viewing the image.

Sorry about it. This should work, hopefully:

[deanhystad]

How do you run your program?

I don't know if the img tags work. Look here for instructions on how to attach a file.

https://python-forum.io/misc.php?action=...ight=image

[jonesphedra]

# is the start of a line comment in Python. Everything following # in the line is a comment. Don't depend on syntax highlighting.

The error message told you where the error happened.

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/ArcPy_Ex/test.py", line 5, in <module>
outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
NameError: name 'arcpy' is not defined

Note the lack of a comment character in outfc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

That right. To resolve this problem and see the code correctly in the Python IDLE editor, you need to ensure that the comments are properly formatted with a single '#' symbol at the beginning of each comment line.
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