Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'syntax': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'intermediate': 0.05; 'line:': 0.07; 'received:209.85.160.174': 0.07; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'nameerror:': 0.09; 'sentence': 0.09; '~ethan~': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'aug': 0.13; '66,': 0.16; 'make,': 0.16; 'misrepresent': 0.16; 'subject:user': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'versions': 0.20; 'defined': 0.22; 'errors': 0.23; 'somebody': 0.23; 'user.': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:2**1': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.25; '(most': 0.27; 'am,': 0.27; 'cc:addr:gmail.com': 0.27; 'scale': 0.27; '2.6': 0.27; 'newer': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.28; 'url:mailman': 0.29; 'install': 0.29; 'error': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'url:python': 0.32; 'file': 0.32; 'url:listinfo': 0.32; 'getting': 0.33; 'traceback': 0.33; 'problem': 0.33; 'anyone': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'url:org': 0.36; 'moment': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'things': 0.38; 'skip:" 10': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'help': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'john': 0.60; 'p.s.': 0.63; 'dont': 0.64; 'subject': 0.66; 'furman': 0.84; 'ethan': 0.91; 'novice': 0.91 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=tNIhrWIzbqDQbH5j04k/CKGdK1Lg8PqydrKZcE0+ugE=; b=EDxCHQAWcAyhwJCl0k/Cf8dWTcybqcDcrQ0Xhzz0mv4G9GOWK8OY1TM5MPY1pdfqfU Hsuu10/81whlAocVUkroPRshal6Mx6JASMaeeZRSmO0Qc7zajej6T1Y8NpwzpGaeZ6FW M64oK839ceWcvDT62dd/4iJG092RNe9RkIHzFgxIIahsPYiD/EVp3P1n51ROeXIJi1u+ oUMgsIu6Zb9PuX5OF3lisW3InXNsLQ8rX1bRESomQ0gsGwmVYH9daJezUmQy8eCetnlU bD4lQcZ9HMBRSMzG7l+sEQWFd/PsXBeMzd6wIoM+It6d+A+POOygE8/dAxKAF9DQNiFw PlEw== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <501FEB5E.6050506@stoneleaf.us> References: <501FEB5E.6050506@stoneleaf.us> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 02:13:54 +1000 Subject: Re: Intermediate Python user needed help From: Alec Taylor To: Ethan Furman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: John Mordecai Dildy , python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 50 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1344269640 news.xs4all.nl 6905 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47089 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26632 On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > John Mordecai Dildy wrote: >> >> I am currently using python 2.6 and am not going to install the newer >> versions of python and i am looking for people that are still using ver 2.6 >> in python to help with with the code line: >> >> sentence = "All good things come to those who wait." >> >> then im getting this error message when i dont see the problem with it: >> >> File "ex26.py", line 77 >> sentence = "All good things come to those who wait." >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > > John Mordecai Dildy wrote: >> Current Problem at the moment >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "ex26.py", line 66, in >> beans, jars, crates = secret_formula(start-point) >> NameError: name 'start' is not defined >> >> anyone know how to make start defined > > In your subject line you state that you are an intermediate Python user. > These are not the errors an intermediate user would make, nor the questions > an intermediate user would ask. These are the errors that somebody who > doesn't know Python would make. > > Please do not misrepresent yourself. +1 > > ~Ethan~ > > P.S. The scale I am accustomed to is Novice -> Intermediate -> Advanced -> > Master What, no n00b before Novice? :P > > Are there scales out there that would put these types of questions in the > "intermediate" category? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list