On Thursday 07 July 2011 00:48:24 Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Lisi" wrote
>
> >> : File "ex26.py", line 10
> >> : def print_first_word(words)
> >> : ^
> >> : SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >> : lisi@Tux:~/Python/LearnPythonTheHardWay$
> >>
> >> Look at the error.
Hi Lisi
On 7 July 2011 08:52, Lisi wrote:
> > > You could obviously see something wrong
> >
> > The posted error report had no colon.
>
> Yes - but the script had one, which was why I included the actual script in
> my
> original post. I seem to have cut too much in this email!
>
The error mes
On Thursday 07 July 2011 10:21:59 Walter Prins wrote:
> Hi Lisi
>
> On 7 July 2011 08:52, Lisi wrote:
> > > > You could obviously see something wrong
> > >
> > > The posted error report had no colon.
> >
> > Yes - but the script had one, which was why I included the actual script
> > in my
> > ori
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Lisi wrote:
> There must have been
>
something, but I cannot fathom what. What difference does inserting a space
> and then deleting it make?
>
I wonder whether you might have had a stray non-printing character in
there? I believe that that would explain the
On Thursday 07 July 2011 11:46:01 Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Lisi wrote:
> > There must have been
>
> something, but I cannot fathom what. What difference does inserting a
> space
>
> > and then deleting it make?
>
> I wonder whether you might have had a stray non-
On Thursday 07 July 2011 10:21:59 Walter Prins wrote:
> Do you maybe
> have several copies of the script lying around in different folders?
I _think_ that you may have the answer here - tho' for me it raises almost as
many questions as I had in the first place. The exercise I was having that
i
Hi! :-)
>From the book I am working from:
A shortcut is to do your import like this:
from ex25 import *
Is this a new and wonderful meaning of the word "shortcut"? _Why_, _how_ is
that a shortcut for:
import ex25
when it has seven *more* characters (counting the spaces)? Or, put another
if you type from ex25 import * then you don't have to put ex25. in front of
the functions.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Lisi wrote:
> Hi! :-)
>
> >From the book I am working from:
>
> A shortcut is to do your import like this:
> from ex25 import *
>
> Is this a new and wonderful meaning of
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Lisi wrote:
> Hi! :-)
>
> >From the book I am working from:
>
> A shortcut is to do your import like this:
> from ex25 import *
>
> Is this a new and wonderful meaning of the word "shortcut"? _Why_, _how_ is
> that a shortcut for:
>
> import ex25
>
> when it has
Michael M Mason wrote on 07 July 2011 at 15:38:-
> > In error, I downloaded ex26 before I had done ex25. So I left
> > it and did ex25.
> >
> > Having finally given up on ex25, I am now doing ex26. And guess
> > what?! Line 10 has a missing colon.
> >
> > So _how_ did a missing colon in ex26 cau
On 07 July 2011 at 15:07 Lisi wrote:
> In error, I downloaded ex26 before I had done ex25. So I left
> it and did ex25.
>
> Having finally given up on ex25, I am now doing ex26. And guess
> what?! Line 10 has a missing colon.
>
> So _how_ did a missing colon in ex26 cause problems in ex25
On Thursday 07 July 2011 15:42:12 Michael M Mason wrote:
> > Maybe you've been editing ex25 and then executing ex26. That'd get you
> > the same error in the same place over and over again.
>
> Looks like this might be it. In your earlier post the error reported is in
> ex26:-
>
> : lisi@Tux:~/Pyth
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Noah Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Lisi wrote:
> > Hi! :-)
> >
> > >From the book I am working from:
> >
> > A shortcut is to do your import like this:
> > from ex25 import *
> >
> > Is this a new and wonderful meaning of the word "shortcut"?
>
"Lisi" wrote
A shortcut is to do your import like this:
from ex25 import *
Is this a new and wonderful meaning of the word "shortcut"?
No, it just saves you typing ex25. in front of every name in the
module.
Of course, the "import *" technique is frowned upon because
of the risk of in
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