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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 14:40:03 EST 2014


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Dave Angel <davea at 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.

ChrisA



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