[Klug-general] Motor system on GPIO Raspberry Pi

[Paul Lenton]

Paths don't accept spaces and the log shows "Python programs" as part of
the path.

Use the escape character \ eg Python\ programs in the path. That should
sort it
On 20 Oct 2013 20:45, "james snyder" <snyder.webmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Re: GPIO
>
> Some new students need help running a GPIO system on a model B raspberry
> pi running Raspberian Linux, so I am forwarding this message to our KLUG
> group mailing list on their behalf....
>
> "We have connected the motor and battery to the GPIO RPi .
> We have saved a Python program (developed using the Python Shell) in :
>
> /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs
> If we click on: Python programs, we see the file: motor.py
>
>  The problem is
>
> when we open LXTerminal we type:
>  cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs (is where our motor.py is)
> We get the error message
> "No such file or directory"
>
>  We have formatted another Raspberian SD Card from scratch.
>
>  In order to make our motor to work we need to use LXTerminal to find a
> directory where we have saved our file, and once we are in the directory
> we have to run the command: sudo python motor.py  to start our motor
> but LXTerminal says "No such file""
>
> Without actually seeing the system, based on the above log, any thoughts
> on what the problem is here?
>
>
>
> --
> James Snyder
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