no problem, i understand, i haven't coded anything in literally 2 years, but it was a simple and pretty obvious mistake. thanks for all your help,
nick On Jul 9, 11:30 am, Friðrik Már Jónsson <frid...@pyth.net> wrote: > Previously, I wrote: > >> P.S. While this is a fairly obvious problem it's usually a good > >> idea to post working code and a traceback when requesting help. > Nick wrote: > > thanks for spotting the obvious errors, its my 2nd day programming > > python in about 3 years. > > I'm sorry, my saying it was obvious may have come off a little > arrogant. My clumsily delivered point was that because it was a small > snippet of code it didn't take much time to run through for someone > who codes daily with Python. What you did there was a perfectly > ordinary thing to do until experience teaches you how Python does > things. :) > > > fridrick, code should be workable with the exception of the > > errors...thats the whole program > > You're right, I failed to say it explicitely but I was referring to > the input file. In some cases, albeit not this one, problems can > exist in parsing gotchas. > > Regards, > Friðrik Már -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list