Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread Adam Stogner
You should be using double quotes on this line and you are missing the last quote: print 'You're not Chris! Should be: print "You're not Chris!" On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, col speed wrote: > On 11 January 2012 20:11, Max S. wrote: > > I believe that line 3 raises an error. The becaus

Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread col speed
On 11 January 2012 20:11, Max S. wrote: > I believe that line 3 raises an error.  The because you contained the text > in single quotes, and then used the same character in 'you're not chris', > Python believes that you are trying to type "you" re not chris".  You can > change the single quotes su

Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread Max S.
I believe that line 3 raises an error. The because you contained the text in single quotes, and then used the same character in 'you're not chris', Python believes that you are trying to type "you" re not chris". You can change the single quotes surrounding your string to double quotes ("you're n

[Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread Mike G
Hi Chris I'm new to programming and Python myself so I would listen to the previous guys first, and I'll repeat a bit of what has already been mentioned... Make sure you define 'x'. Is name really an 'int', or is it possibly a 'str'? Fix any indentation issues. Is there anything you can do with

Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread col speed
> your_weight = int(raw_input("Please enter your weight: ")) > if your_weight < 0: > print 'You're not Chris!' > elif your_weight == 170: > print 'You might be Chris! But...' > your_height = int(raw_input("Please enter your height: ")) > if your_height < 180: >

Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread Noah Hall
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Noah Hall wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Chris Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I am *new* (I cannot put enough emphasis on that!) to Python programming, >>> and to programming in general. I am trying to write ou

Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Noah Hall wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Chris Johnson wrote: Hi there, I am *new* (I cannot put enough emphasis on that!) to Python programming, and to programming in general. I am trying to write out a statement that will protect a file on my computer from being run unless I enter t

Re: [Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-10 Thread Noah Hall
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Chris Johnson wrote: > Hi there, > > I am *new* (I cannot put enough emphasis on that!) to Python programming, > and to programming in general. I am trying to write out a statement that > will protect a file on my computer from being run unless I enter the right >

[Tutor] Extremely simple question

2012-01-10 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi there, I am *new* (I cannot put enough emphasis on that!) to Python programming, and to programming in general. I am trying to write out a statement that will protect a file on my computer from being run unless I enter the right specifications; your_weight = int(raw_input("Please enter your we