Darren Williams wrote:
> Luke and Kent, you're right, I didn't think JavaScript calculated
> multiplaction and division before addition and subtraction but seems
> it does :)
>
> I dunno what you mean about usedPocketsOne not being defined, didn't I
> define it with usedPocketsOne = 192000?
no, I said UsedPocketsOne was not defined. Note the different starting
letter.
Python is case senstitive, meaning usedPocketsOne is not the same as
UsedPocketsOne.
So yes, you defined usedPocketsOne with the assignment to 192000, but
you did not define UsedPocketsOne.
Note what happens when I test your code:
>>> def main():
usedPocketsOne = 192000
junkiesOne = 500
labSpaceOne = 0
resultOne = 0
while usedPocketsOne > (junkiesOne - labSpaceOne) * 17:
resultOne = resultOne + 1
usedPocketsOne = (UsedPocketsOne - junkiesOne + labSpaceOne) * 17
>>> main()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in -toplevel-
main()
File "<pyshell#5>", line 10, in main
usedPocketsOne = (UsedPocketsOne - junkiesOne + labSpaceOne) * 17
NameError: global name 'UsedPocketsOne' is not defined
You should get a similar error, unless you've somehow defined
UsedPocketsOne somewhere else.
HTH,
-Luke
Correction of previous e-mail: This raises a NameError, not a
SyntaxError, as I said before. sorry about that.
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