SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 01:51 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote:

> This is my latest result : I copy and pasted one line at a time into the
> IDLE and used ONLY the "enter-return" button to move on to the next line
> and this time I didnt get an indentation error but instead a traceback
> error:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#12>", line 1, in <module>
>     while not done:
> NameError: name 'done' is not defined

Right. 

That's because 'done' is not defined.

Why don't you try my suggestion of saving the code into a .py file, then
using the File > Open command to open it?




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Steve
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