[Tutor] Code runs in interpreter but won't output to stdout

[bob gailer]

On 1/28/2014 9:12 PM, scurvy scott wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out why my code won't output to 
> terminal, but will run just fine in interpreter.
> I'm using python 2.7.3 on Debian Linux/Crunchbang.
>
> Here is my code.
>
> import requests
> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as beautiful
> import sys
>
> def dogeScrape(username, password):
>     payload = {'username': username, 'password': password}
>     r = requests.post("http://dogehouse.org/index.php?page=login", 
> data=payload)
>     soup = beautiful(r.text)
>     confirmed = str(soup.findAll('span',{'class':'confirmed'}))
>     print "Confirmed account balance: " + confirmed[86:98]
>
> dogeScrape("XXXX", "XXXX")
>
> It will output the "confirmed....." part, just not the confirmed 
> variable. It will output the entire thing in the interpreter.
>
Good reminder for everyone: be explicit about behavior. We wasted an 
iteration just to get this clarified.

The expression to be printed is the concatenation of "Confirmed account 
balance: " with a slice of confirmed. Therefore confirmed is less that 
86 characters (or the slice is blank), therefore no output appears. 
Print the entire value of confirmed; that will tell us a lot.