Intermediate Python user needed help

[Ethan Furman]

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 <module>
 >     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.

~Ethan~

P.S.  The scale I am accustomed to is Novice -> Intermediate -> Advanced 
-> Master

Are there scales out there that would put these types of questions in 
the "intermediate" category?