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Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax'

Date 2014-12-11 14:46 -0500
From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax'
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On 12/11/2014 02:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>> Please give your environment when starting a new thread.  Python version and
>> OS version.  In this case, I'm guessing Windows, because I have to guess
>> something to give a meaningful answer.
>>
>> On 12/11/2014 02:21 PM, Simon Evans wrote:
>>> Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
>>> on win
>>> 32
>
> You mean like how he quoted his Python startup line, thus telling you
> Python version, word size, and the fact that it's win32?
>
> Granted, it would be nice to have that up front, rather than buried
> deep in the text, but the information _is_ there.
>

Right of course.  My eyeballs didn't happen to scan that far to the 
right.  I was looking for drive letters or backslashes, or other clues, 
but missed the three-letter one "win" or for that matter the "MSC" one, 
which wouldn't actually have been conclusive.


-- 
DaveA

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Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup'  re: cd Soup   , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-12-11 11:21 -0800
  Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup'  re: cd Soup   , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-12-11 11:26 -0800
  Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup'  re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-11 14:34 -0500
  Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup ,  returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-12 06:40 +1100
  Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-11 14:46 -0500
  Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup'  re: cd Soup   , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-12-14 06:48 -0800
    Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup ,  returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-15 06:41 +1100

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