[Tutor] how do I set variables in Python 3.4

[Steven D'Aprano]

Hi Danielle, and welcome.

Others have already replied to your post, and I'm going to reply with 
pretty much the same answer:

Please help us to help you! We're not mind-readers, we need to see the 
actual error messages you get, and your actual code, not just a rough 
paraphrase of it.

When Python has an error to report, it will print a traceback like this:

py> x = 1
py> y = 1/(1-x)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero


It's important to copy and paste the whole traceback, starting with the 
first line "Traceback ..." to the end. Tracebacks often contain a lot of 
useful information to help debugging. (Although not always: one of the 
frustrations of programming is that sometimes the error messages aren't 
very useful.)

You say:

> I am supposed to use operand1=2 and operand2=7 

You should be able to use that *exactly* as it is (although putting 
spaces around the = sign is recommended):

py> operand1 = 2
py> operand2 = 7
py> result = operand1 + operand2
py> print(result)
9



> To complete: result= operand1+operand2 etc, but I keep getting invalid 
> syntax either on the " or operand1. Please help

We can't tell what you have mistyped if we don't know what you typed in 
the first place :-(

Regards,


Steve

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:50:12PM -0700, Danielle Salaz wrote:
> I'm a noob to Python and cannot figure out how to complete one of my assignments. 
> 
> I am supposed to use operand1=2 and operand2=7 
> To complete: result= operand1+operand2 etc, but I keep getting invalid syntax either on the " or operand1. Please help
> 
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