Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking?

2011-07-06 Thread col speed
On 5 July 2011 07:15, wrote: > I second this. > > I have a second harddrive with Mint on it. Ithought it might be fun to > learn emacs. On windows I've been using eclipse for like 6 to 12 months or > however long ago I started. > > I tried emacs for about two seconds and was like, uh no thanks. D

Re: [Tutor] broken script - curiouser and curiouser

2011-07-06 Thread Lisi
Thanks very much Martin. I did "solve" the problem after you kindly emailed - but the solution has puzzled me more that the original problem. On Tuesday 05 July 2011 23:23:41 Martin wrote: > : lisi@Tux:~/Python/LearnPythonTheHardWay$ python ex26.py > : File "ex26.py", line 10 > : def pr

Re: [Tutor] broken script - curiouser and curiouser

2011-07-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Lisi" wrote : File "ex26.py", line 10 : def print_first_word(words) : ^ : SyntaxError: invalid syntax : lisi@Tux:~/Python/LearnPythonTheHardWay$ Look at the error. Look at the error carefully. I could see nothing that was different. The error re