Re: [Tutor] Find a good linux distribution with python.

2009-05-25 Thread Dave Crouse
It's not a newbie distro by any means, but i am very fond of Arch Linux. It has 3 versions of python available. Currently, python24 2.4.6-1 python 2.6.2-1 python3 3.0.1-1 are all very simple to install in Arch. I have 2.6 and 3.0 both installed. [cro...@veronica ~]$ python --version Python 2.6.2

Re: [Tutor] Printing Problem python 3

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Crouse
I got the same thing with idle, but when running as a script, it's not the same, it errors. I tried it on Windows and Linux. --- [da...@arch64 Python]$ less test.py #/usr/bin/python3 print ('The \"This is a test \" {') [da...@arch64 Python]$ sh test.py tes

Re: [Tutor] Printing Problem python 3

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Crouse
The double {{ }} worked perfectly, THANK YOU ! :) This was driving me crazy. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Kent Johnson wrote: > print ('The \"This is a test \" {') > ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

[Tutor] Printing Problem python 3

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Crouse
Trying to print something with a { in it. Probably extremely simple, but it's frustrating me. :( print ('The \"This is a test \" {') i get this error ValueError: Single '{' encountered in format string ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://ma