Forwarding to the list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Walch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] IF statements To: Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Entering the code in the interpreter I could not find an issue. No error at all. Might be that you launched some things in the interpreter by mistake? Anyhow, I put the code in an editor and saved it as xxx.py. Again no error while running the program. Just try again. Might be different then. I suggest to download SPE: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4161 and try to run it as file too. Have a nice time.... Thomas Kent Johnson schrieb: > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:51 PM, WM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I used to do Basic and enjoyed it. Someone said Python was a vastly better >> language than Visual Basic, which I considered playing with. So I sought to >> give it a go but struck a sticking point very early. >> I am now going through the Python tutorial. All went well until I came to >> IF. The code below was not written by me. It is a copy/paste job from the >> tutor. I do not have any idea what is going wrong. >> >> IDLE 2.6 >>> >> >>>>> >>>>> x = int(raw_input("Please enter an integer: ")) >>>>> >> >> Please enter an integer: 42 >> >>>>> >>>>> if x < 0: >>>>> >> >> ... x = 0 >> ... print 'Negative changed to zero' >> ... elif x == 0: >> ... print 'Zero' >> ... elif x == 1: >> ... print 'Single' >> ... else: >> ... print 'More' >> ... >> More >> 12 >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> > > Did you paste the >>> and ... or were they printed by the interpreter? > Examples often show the entire contents of a session in the > interpreter, including the >>> and ... prompts. When you enter the > example yourself you should not include them. Also "Please enter an > integer: " is output from the program and "42" is user input to the > program, you should not paste either of them. > > Where did the 12 come from? It looks like interpreter output but there > is nothing preceding it that would print a 12. > > Kent > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
