[Tutor] Thank you all! was (Re: How do fix this error?)

[Nathan Pinno]

Hey all,

I would like to thank everyone here and at Programmer's Heaven for all their help. Thanks again!

Gratefully,
Nathan Pinno
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan G" <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk>
To: "Nathan Pinno" <falcon3166 at hotmail.com>; <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] How do fix this error?


> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "D:\Python24\add_tutor.py", line 18, in -toplevel-
>    answer, guess = add(num1,num2)
>  File "D:\Python24\add_tutor.py", line 5, in add
>    guess = float(raw_input(a," + ",b," = "))
> TypeError: [raw_]input expected at most 1 arguments, got 4
> 
> The error tells you what to do - give raw input 1 argument:
> 
>    guess = float(raw_input(a," + ",b," = "))
> 
> The commas separate the arguments. You need to create 
> the prompt string first and then feed it to raw_input.
> 
> The string formatting operators may help here. 
> See the Simple Sequences topic on my tutor for 
> examples of string formatting.
> 
> Alan G
> Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
> 
> 
>
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