Hi Roelof, The problem is in quotation marks. Please use plain double instead of curly quotes. (That's a common issue when you copy-paste the code from pdf/doc)
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Roelof Wobben <rwob...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have this exercise : > > > Try each of the following formatted string operations in a Python shell and > record the results: > > “%s %d %f” % (5, 5, 5) > “%-.2f” % 3 > “%-10.2f%-10.2f” % (7, 1.0/2) > print ” $%5.2fn $%5.2fn $%5.2f” % (3, 4.5, 11.2) > > > But if I try in a python 2.7 IDLE enviroment I get this : > >>>> %s %d %f % (5, 5, 5) > SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>>> print “%s %d %f” % (5, 5, 5) > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Roelof > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- Thanks, Volodymyr _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
