title: How can I run python in terminal on a mac?
body: <p>I'm extremely new to programming, in fact I'm trying to learn Python now as a first language. I found that Google has a python course and it said to download python 2 from python's website, which I did, and I now realize that python was already installed on my mac by apple. Anyways, I also had to download some exercises from google, and attempt to run some code in terminal and this is where I'm running into trouble and could really use some insight. </p>
  
  <p>First, the lesson said to simply type, <code>python</code>, into terminal to start coding in python (I don't know if this is the way to say that, or if that just gives you the ability to run python code?)</p>
  
  <p>Then, it said to type in: <code>python hello.py</code></p>
  
  <p>Which was supposed to return: <code>Hello World</code></p>
  
  <p>However, all I keep getting is : </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>SyntaxError: Invalid Syntax</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And I don't really know where to go from here, I was thinking maybe it's due to me downloading python again when it was already installed, if it even was?</p>