Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix

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Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> writes:
> desired = Id < 10 or Id > 133 or Id in good_ids
> When I try to validate whether I passed that check, I'm told there's a
> Name error and it's not defined (using the last line of the snippet
> above).

Id was called IDNum in your earlier pst

> Also, I guess I'm at a loss for what I'm supposed to do with "desired"
> to check it prior to running my email code.
>
> if desired == True: doesn't work 

That should work, but it's more concise and idiomatic to say "if desired: ..."

> I'm headed to bed. Too tired to focus on making this work and I
> apparently really don't 'get' what I'm doing. Maybe I'll be better off
> with fresh eyes on it tomorrow.

You're probably better off reading a basic Python tutorial than trying
to mess with a working piece of code by trial and error without knowing
the language.

  https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html

is a good place to get started.

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Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 21:19 -0700
  Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 14:28 +1000
    Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 21:39 -0700
      Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 14:45 +1000
        Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 22:26 -0700
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-21 23:03 -0700
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 16:34 +1000
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-22 16:37 +1000
            Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix thilfigr16@gmail.com - 2016-07-22 06:00 -0700
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 08:45 -0700
      Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 01:18 -0400
        Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-22 16:08 +1000
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 18:53 +0000
  Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-07-22 15:58 +0100

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