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Re: Intermediate Python user needed help

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On Sunday, August 5, 2012 4:24:45 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:51:31 -0700, John Mordecai Dildy wrote:
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> > Ive tried to delete the spaces in 75 and 76 to see if it made a change
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> > but it has not made a difference to it.
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> What made you think that the problem could be fixed by deleting *spaces*?
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> In general, making random changes to code in the hope that syntax errors 
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> will just go away is not the right way to fix broken code. Even if you 
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> succeed, since you don't know what you did to fix it, how do you know 
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> that your next change won't break it again?
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> Almost always, when you have a mysterious syntax error on a line that 
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> appears to be perfectly fine, the reason is a missing bracket of some 
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> sort on a previous line. (For Americans, I mean parentheses, brackets or 
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> braces; for Britons and Australians, round square or curly brackets; for 
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> everyone else, whatever you call them.)
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> -- 
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> Steven

Well i have put the spaces back into the code after i did that and had no hope it worked though.

thank you steven for giving me some input

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Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 12:29 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-08-05 12:34 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 12:44 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 12:51 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:09 -0500
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help xDog Walker <thudfoo@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:15 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-05 20:24 +0000
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:31 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:16 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:17 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:19 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:52 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-05 17:01 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 16:03 -0500
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:09 -0700
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-05 17:32 -0400
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-05 23:15 +0100
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 18:27 -0500
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 23:06 +0200
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Zero Piraeus <schesis@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 17:07 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-05 22:08 +0100
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-05 22:12 +0100
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:14 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 19:49 -0700
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:14 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help "William R. Wing" <wrw@mac.com> (Bill Wing) - 2012-08-05 19:38 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Andre Ramaciotti <andre@ramaciotti.com> - 2012-08-05 18:22 -0300
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:00 -0700
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:00 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-05 23:17 +0100
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 18:19 -0500
          Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-05 19:32 -0400
            Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-05 21:15 -0400
            Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 20:27 -0500
          Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-06 00:42 +0000
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.hadjar@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 04:06 +0100
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 20:52 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-07 12:27 -0400
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:39 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-08-06 09:05 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-07 01:16 +0000
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 20:55 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 02:13 +1000
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-08-06 19:05 +0200
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-06 15:22 -0400
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 07:59 +1000
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-06 23:39 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 07:09 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 07:09 -0700

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