Where is 'palindrome' defined?

[Denis McMahon]

On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:46:31 -0700, fl wrote:

>>>> def palindrome(num):

Note carefully the spelling(1): palindrome

>>>> parlindrome(a)

Note carefully the spelling(2): parlindrome

> NameError: name 'parlindrome' is not defined

Compare carefully spelling(1) and spelling(2).

palindrome is defined, pa_r_lindrome is not defined. The computer is not 
psychic yet, so it doesn't know that when you wrote pa_r_lindrome you 
meant palindrome, you have to spell it the same way every time for the 
computer to recognise that you mean the same name.

Now you also know that the error message:

"NameError: name '<something>' is not defined"

means that you might have spelled <something> differently on the line in 
the error message to the word you meant, so next time you see this error 
message you know to carefully check the spellings of function names and 
variables.

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com