this is what i get when I write in the terminal, (Im sorry, im super new)

CodePudding user response：

You are typing in a z shell, but you are trying to execute python code. To enter python's interactive mode, you can simply type /usr/bin/local/python3 (or python3 directly might work if things are setup correctly on your computer). Once you do that, you should see something like

Python 3.9.2 (default, Jul 16 2021, 11:47:35) 
[Clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.11)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

in which you can type your lines of python code