Confusing the Python command line interpreter REPL with the terminal shell

  • command-line
  • console
  • shell
  • repl

Common mistakes made:

>>> pip install foobar
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    pip install foobar
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'pip' is not defined