Creating a Program to Decompose a Number and Run a Function on that Decomposition

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:04 PM, CTSB01 <scott.moore270 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Ian.  That worked regarding that issue.  Now I have an 'invalid syntax' issue unfortunately.
>>
>>>> def phi_m(x,m):
>>       rtn = []
>>       for n2 in range(0, len(x)*m - 2):
>>         n = n2 / m
>>         r = n2 - n * m
>>         rtn.append(m * x[n] + r * (x[n + 1] - x[n]))
>>         print 'n2 =', n2, ': n =', n, ' r =' , r, ' rtn =', rtn
>>       rtn
>>
>> on the line  print 'n2 =', n2, ': n =', n, ' r =' , r, ' rtn =', rtn  Is it something obvious?
>
> Are you using Python 2 or 3?  "print" has changed from a statement to
> a function, so the above syntax would be invalid in Python 3.

Note also that in Python 3 you should change the line "n = n2 / m" to
"n = n2 // m" because the syntax for integer division has also
changed.

And regardless of your Python version, the last line should probably
be "return rtn", not just "rtn".