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Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined?

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined?
Date 2015-06-01 15:17 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:46:31 -0700, fl wrote:

>>>> def palindrome(num):

Note carefully the spelling(1): palindrome

>>>> parlindrome(a)

Note carefully the spelling(2): parlindrome

> NameError: name 'parlindrome' is not defined

Compare carefully spelling(1) and spelling(2).

palindrome is defined, pa_r_lindrome is not defined. The computer is not 
psychic yet, so it doesn't know that when you wrote pa_r_lindrome you 
meant palindrome, you have to spell it the same way every time for the 
computer to recognise that you mean the same name.

Now you also know that the error message:

"NameError: name '<something>' is not defined"

means that you might have spelled <something> differently on the line in 
the error message to the word you meant, so next time you see this error 
message you know to carefully check the spellings of function names and 
variables.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Where is 'palindrome' defined? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 21:46 -0700
  Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu> - 2015-05-31 23:55 -0700
    Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-01 15:02 +0000
  Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-31 23:56 -0700
  Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 08:58 +0200
    Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 12:21 +0300
      Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 11:41 +0200
      Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-06-02 14:14 -0700
        Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-03 01:30 +0300
  Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Omar Abou Mrad <omar.aboumrad@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 10:00 +0300
  Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 15:17 +0000
  Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 17:55 -0700
    Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-06-01 18:07 -0700
    Re: Where is 'palindrome' defined? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-06-02 02:10 +0100

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