Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.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 0.035 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; '16,': 0.03; 'interpreter': 0.05; 'report.': 0.07; 'advice.': 0.09; 'difference,': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'lazily': 0.16; 'exception': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'later': 0.20; 'machine': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'copied': 0.24; 'precise': 0.24; 'helpful': 0.24; 'cheers,': 0.24; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'easier': 0.31; 'fedora': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'subject:Simple': 0.36; 'ubuntu': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'introduced': 0.61; 'entire': 0.61; 'laptop': 0.65; 'header:Reply- To:1': 0.67; '20,': 0.68; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.71; 'london,': 0.72; 'us,': 0.73; 'saw': 0.77; 'reply- to:addr:gmail.com': 0.80; 'truth': 0.81; 'phil': 0.84; 'snow': 0.91 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent:mime-version :to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FGxlrVSI6/jhizbWa43qeejc8M8icT+R43Yu+OO2lBw=; b=sncl4Cf7kz16xiMSsfvlQnQWPuYX6WydSvRG5RRAfKCLBFFGzn030vMy1NI3HIFDLm 46pVLHyWsMtlmtrwY/1doTom64SQZM1nhYDSKxbXLz4aMa2gToOdRVeRV0M/Ri6vST6D Rqn/8pLjdFc/9+9EbQYkQTtztAjlc3fA2PIPMb03rc+mSqjgdOkWQ7Jkpd36LUJq29h+ fQE4tao/71VTwDBru8w/f8DAQZb/ujy6vBctKZbt69fDQU1TjpFN5Se7bQB6pBE4gDSU IjoPP0OZbxLxYOAwToQGPPrmKEOi/CpGjVYkuEJnBS5NqMiJiAMNzZEVQDh1J2nl816F OZaQ== X-Received: by 10.180.74.141 with SMTP id t13mr3880638wiv.3.1397588573265; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:02:51 +0100 From: Phil Dobbin Organization: Horse Latitudes Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Simple question References: <534D7807.6050408@gmail.com> <534D7B08.5030909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: phildobbin@gmail.com 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: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1397588581 news.xs4all.nl 2945 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39894 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70288 On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> I saw the 'e-17' appended to the end but was unsure of its meaning ( >> quite a number of things are introduced in the book with clarification >> of their meaning not forthcoming 'til later on). > > Recommendation: If you don't understand something, keep it there :) > You can just copy and paste from the Python interactive interpreter > (command line or IDLE) straight into the email; it'll be easier to > explain, that way. > > This is *especially* true of tracebacks. You might not see the > difference, but to us, it's often hugely helpful to see the entire > exception report. Good advice. Truth is I'm writing emails on my laptop & attempting Python on a Desktop machine so I lazily copied by eye. My mistake. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard, RHEL 7, Ubuntu Precise & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc Based in London, UK