Re: [Tutor] problem with program in python in easy steps

2017-10-26 Thread boB Stepp
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Chris Coleman wrote: > > i wrote these programs and saved them per instructions on page 128 and 129 > in the book "python in easy steps". > > class Person: > '''A base class to define Person properties.''' > def__init__(self,name): The above line should ge

Re: [Tutor] problem with program in python in easy steps

2017-10-26 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 26/10/17 21:02, Chris Coleman wrote: > i wrote these programs and saved them per instructions on page 128 and 129 > in the book "python in easy steps". I don't know the book but... > > class Person: > '''A base class to define Person properties.''' > def__init__(self,name): > s

Re: [Tutor] problem with program

2017-10-13 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 13/10/17 18:53, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 13/10/17 13:04, Chris Coleman wrote: > >> def_init_(self,chat): > >> File "scripts/bird.py", line 4 >> def_init_(self,chat): >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > There are two problems here. I meant to

Re: [Tutor] problem with program

2017-10-13 Thread Mark Lawrence via Tutor
On 13/10/17 13:04, Chris Coleman wrote: just learning python as my first programming language. going through the book "python in easy steps" by mike mcgrath. i am going through the programs in chapter 7 and can't get them to work. here is the first one in the chapter: class Bird: '''A bas

Re: [Tutor] problem with program

2017-10-13 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 13/10/17 13:04, Chris Coleman wrote: > def_init_(self,chat): > File "scripts/bird.py", line 4 > def_init_(self,chat): > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax There are two problems here. The first is that you need a space after the def. The second is that ther