Re: [Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

2008-08-11 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Joshua Nikkel wrote: ah that was it. I had a variable named len earlier. On a restart it was fine. Thanks! Besides that you have a HUGE error!!! Your spelling! It should be : s = 'supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso' :P On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Robert Berman [EMAIL

[Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

2008-08-10 Thread Joshua Nikkel
I've pasted the following from my python shell. Please note that the first two lines of code are taken directly from the standard tutorial files under section 3.1.2. Will someone please tell me why something as basic and straightforward as this will not work? Everything else seems to work just

Re: [Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Berman
No. Not so. Observe, please: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 7 2008, 15:19:09) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. Personal firewall software may warn

Re: [Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

2008-08-10 Thread Joshua Nikkel
ah that was it. I had a variable named len earlier. On a restart it was fine. Thanks! On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Robert Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: No. Not so. Observe, please: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 7 2008, 15:19:09) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type

[Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

2008-08-09 Thread Joshua Nikkel
I've pasted the following from my python shell. Please note that the first two lines of code are taken directly from the standard tutorial files under section 3.1.2. Will someone please tell me why something as basic and straightforward as this will not work? Everything else seems to work just

Re: [Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

2008-08-09 Thread Martin Walsh
Joshua Nikkel wrote: IDLE 1.2.2 No Subprocess s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' len(s) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#1, line 1, in module len(s) TypeError: 'str' object is not callable My guess would be that you've reassigned the name 'len' to