Re: [Tutor] Question about conditions and empty values

2013-10-28 Thread Alan Gauld
On 28/10/13 15:59, Shelby Martin wrote: I use the Python GUI called IDLE. As far as I can tell, it doesn't show me any error messages, How are you running the program in IDLE? When I type the code into a new edit window, save it and run it from within IDLE the error trace appears in the Python

Re: [Tutor] Question about conditions and empty values

2013-10-28 Thread Shelby Martin
I use the Python GUI called IDLE. As far as I can tell, it doesn't show me any error messages, but when the program shuts down suddenly due to a coding error, some sort of text pops up very briefly on the screen before it shuts down. Sorry, I'm a complete newbie to Python :) And thanks for your hel

Re: [Tutor] Question about conditions and empty values

2013-10-26 Thread Alan Gauld
On 26/10/13 20:13, Shelby Martin wrote: My question is this - the author of this exercise states the condition is False if either zero or "empty" is the value. I'm assuming he means that empty is just pressing Enter without entering a number? Normally that would be correct but... money = in