it works well if it is on the same line, but I would like to wrap it for readability
On 10/21/07, Bryan Fodness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it doesn't fix the problem, now it says there is a syntax error on the > equal sign. > > On 10/21/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > "Bryan Fodness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > > > > d, fs1, fs2, fs3, fs4, fs5, fs6, fs7, fs8, fs9, fs10, > > > fs11, fs12, fs13, fs14, fs15, fs16, fs17, fs18, fs19, > > > fs20, fs21, fs22, fs23, fs24, fs25, fs26, fs27, fs28, > > > fs29, fs30, fs31, fs32, fs33, fs34, fs35, fs36, fs37, > > > fs38, fs39, fs40 = line.split() > > > > Because your tuple spans multiple lines I think you > > will need to put parens round it. > > > > >>> a,b,c,d > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<input>", line 1, in ? > > NameError: name 'a' is not defined > > >>> (a,b,c,d > > ... > > > > So starting with a paren tells Python to ignore the newline. > > Without it it gets confused about what you want to do. > > > > HTH, > > > > -- > > Alan Gauld > > Author of the Learn to Program web site > > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > >
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