What am I doing wrong in this simple tkinter example?

Yves S. Garret yoursurrogategod at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 11:16:49 EDT 2013


On Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:10:07 AM UTC-4, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
> On 03/16/2013 10:53 AM, Yves S. Garret wrote:
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> > Hi all, I'm well into "Python  Programming for the Absolute Beginner" in order to
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>  > become more acquainted with the language. However, when I got to page 
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> 304 and
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>  > did my first example:
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>  > http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1107093008
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>  > And this is the error that I'm getting:
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>  > http://bin.cakephp.org/view/399711843
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>  >
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>  > This is the code that came with the book:
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>  >
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>  > http://bin.cakephp.org/view/514822432
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>  >
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>  >
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>  > What I don't understand is, why am I getting that error? I've done 
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> diff -w
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>  > and the code looks for the most part the same. What am I doing wrong 
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> when I
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>  > put the application together?
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> The error is that indexes are supposed to be integers, instead you have
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> a text string:
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> "That's not the correct password, so I can't s hare the secret with you."
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>      -m
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> -- 
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> Lark's Tongue Guide to Python: http://lightbird.net/larks/
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> 
> The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total
> 
> optimism.  George Santayana

*shrug*

In the example that I have posted from the book it works just fine.  I also used 
this batch file to help me along.

longevity.py
pause

Hence the question mark over my head at the moment :) .



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