I am out of trial and error again Lists

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 10:51:41 EDT 2014


On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head at hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> I tried list(range(10)  I thought that would work in Python 3.  It
> didn't.

This is your problem: You say "it didn't work". That is almost *never*
the right thing to say or to think. What happened when you tried that?
Did you get a SyntaxError because of the omitted close parenthesis?
Did the interpreter prompt for more input? Did a velociraptor come out
of nowhere and try to kill you [1]?

When you come back to python-list, you should say exactly what you did
and exactly what happened, not "I tried X and it didn't work". Copy
and paste from your interactive session - do NOT retype, because you
introduce new errors. It's very hard to help you when you don't
explain what you're doing, and just keep on telling us how frustrated
you are.

ChrisA

[1] http://xkcd.com/292/



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