Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread aug dawg
Oh, stupid me forgot the error message. Well, for some odd reason it works now, but there are still some issues. When I tried it just a few minutes ago, it worked fine, it seemed to me. If anyone have any tips, please let me know. Thanks everyone for the tips. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:24 PM, wrot

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread christopher . henk
aug dawg wrote on 08/24/2010 01:55:14 PM: > Now it says that the variable adder is not defined. Does anyone know about this? > It is best if you send the full error message, it helps pinpoint the problem. my copy of your code was: database = [] datafile = open('/home/~/the-db/data') for line i

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Gauld
"aug dawg" wrote select-db = raw_input("Which database to add to? >> ") SyntaxError: can't assign to operator I think it might be the >> at the end, but when I try it in the Python interpreter, it works fine. You have a minus sign in your variable name - at least thats how Python sees

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread aug dawg
Now it says that the variable adder is not defined. Does anyone know about this? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:40 PM, wrote: > > aug dawg wrote on 08/24/2010 01:13:01 PM: > > > > It's not catching that, but I haven't gotten there with the bugs yet. One > more thing I can't figure out. > > > > > line

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread christopher . henk
aug dawg wrote on 08/24/2010 01:13:01 PM: > It's not catching that, but I haven't gotten there with the bugs yet. One more thing I can't figure out. > > line 11 > select-db = raw_input("Which database to add to? >> ") > SyntaxError: can't assign to operator > > I think it might be the >> at

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread aug dawg
It's not catching that, but I haven't gotten there with the bugs yet. One more thing I can't figure out. line 11 select-db = raw_input("Which database to add to? >> ") SyntaxError: can't assign to operator I think it might be the >> at the end, but when I try it in the Python interpreter, it

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread aug dawg
Oh yeah. That was just a comment that I forgot to take out. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Walter Prins wrote: > > > On 24 August 2010 17:47, aug dawg wrote: > >> if searcher in database: >>> # Figure this out. >>> if "exit database" in command: >>> print "Bye!" >>> sys.exit() >>> >> > Th

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM, aug dawg wrote: > if searcher in database: >> # Figure this out. >> >> You need some sort of actual Python statement there as a placeholder - even just "print()". -- www.fsrtechnologies.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tut

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread Che M
> The other day, I wrote a little database just to fiddle around, > but when I try to run it it says that it has an unexpected indent. > From what I can tell, it doesn't. Here's the code. I'm using SPE. In the future, you should copy/paste error message you get into your email. This way it ind

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread Walter Prins
On 24 August 2010 17:47, aug dawg wrote: > if searcher in database: >> # Figure this out. >> if "exit database" in command: >> print "Bye!" >> sys.exit() >> > The first thing that caught my eye was the "#figure me out" line -- python is expecting a statement there, a comment doesn't count. You

Re: [Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread aug dawg
It says that it's on line 25, on the print("Bye!"). Forgot to say that. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM, aug dawg wrote: > The other day, I wrote a little database just to fiddle around, but when I > try to run it it says that it has an unexpected indent. From what I can > tell, it doesn't. He

[Tutor] Databases in Python

2010-08-24 Thread aug dawg
The other day, I wrote a little database just to fiddle around, but when I try to run it it says that it has an unexpected indent. From what I can tell, it doesn't. Here's the code. I'm using SPE. database = [] datafile = open('/home/~/the-db/data') for line in datafile: database.append(line) whi