Dear Guru, I have added def and it doesnt work Sincerly, F

[Gerhard Häring]

Oscar wrote in comp.lang.python:
> I have added 
> 
> def joinsplit = (join(split(lines, '"'), ' '))
>         return joinsplit

This is no valid Python, so you're getting syntax errors.

> to watch.txt in an effort to replace " and / with " " to no avail. Old
> watch.txt works fine, without my new def.

A function to replace " and / with spaces would look like this (Python
1.5 compatible):

def replace_them(s):
    import string
    return string.replace(string.replace(s, '/', ' '), '"', ' ')

> [...]
> 
>         formatted = str(list[0]) + str(list[1]) + fixdate(list[2]) +
> joinsplit.fixnumeric(list[3],10) + joinsplit.fixnumeric(list[4],10)
  ^^^^^^^^^

Apparently, the original joinsplit is a module and not a function.

Gerhard
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