I know that there have been multiple posts in the past about Michael Dawson's book, "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd ed.". Because of this I thought I might mention something my son encountered this morning. I have finally gotten my son to start working in this book. He came to me with a problem this morning, which he could not figure out when trying to replicate the author's (Michael Dawson) Game Over 2.0 program in chapter two on page 17. The object of this program is to do ASCII-style art to generate a large rendition of "Game Over" using the following characters: "_" , "\" , "|" , and "/" . When my son tried to do his version, the "Over" portion did not print correctly. The top half of "Over" printed first followed by the second half of the word next to it. I don't want to say too much for those working through this book, but the essence of the issue is illustrated by the following:
Python 3.4.2 (v3.4.2:ab2c023a9432, Oct 6 2014, 22:16:31) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> print( """ boB Stepp """ ) boB Stepp >>> print( """ boB\ Stepp """ ) boBStepp This led to a discussion with my son about the invisible characters that terminate lines in Window and *nix, escape sequences, etc. Hopefully this might prove helpful to those starting this book without just giving the answer if this problem comes up in their efforts. -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
