That's beyond me, Dougie, I'm not "with it" to the extent of knowing how to copy the dialog on my screen. At the moment my problem is no longer with how to use python3 to talk to the different PiFaces (I solved that one, it was a hardware problem, not a software problem). My problem now is why I hav...

Andrew

Thank you for responding and trying to help. I did look at the github project, but it seemed to be frequented by geeks, talking well beyond my understanding, and I never found anywhere where raw beginners could be helped. However, I'll try again.

I appreciate that people are trying to help, but, so far, their advice has not been helpful. Dougie says I need to install the latest version of pifacedigitalio. I did this with: sudo apt-get install python3-pifacedigitalio and received the message: ““python3-pifacedigitalio is already the newest ve...

I have three PiFaces connected to the RPi via the PiRack. Board 0 works perfectly, both with python3 and with "piface-emulator". With python3, it isn't possible to address the other boards (and, yes, I have changed the Junction connections appropriately). When I do "p.digital_write(1,1,2)", the RPi ...

re my previous note: I've since discovered that the raspberry Pi User Guide DOES say that IDLE3 uses python3 and that this is different from python2, but it also clearly states on page 153 that "You can safely load either version, and these examples will still work." Well, Messrs Upton and Halfacree...

Hi Dougie Thank you, ever so, for your help. That is exactly what I was doing wrong! The Raspberry Pi User Guide says to use IDLE3 rather than IDLE, but it doesn't say that IDLE3 uses python3 and that the latter has a different syntax. I used to tell my students never to get the latest version of Wi...

Hi Texy Thank you for responding. I followed your advice and bought a brand new SD card with the NOOB software already installed. This works OK, but I still get the same "invalid syntax" error message when I work within the Python Shell frame and type in print "Hello, World" . I imagine that the key...

I'm having real problems just getting started. I can log in and do a "startx" with no problems, but when I try to do anything else, I get messages telling me that it can't do what I ask, or can't find what I want, even though I follow the instructions in the User Guide accurately (Yes, I check and d...