[Tutor] populating an array or using a dictionary

[Bryan Fodness]

it doesn't fix the problem, now it says there is a syntax error on the equal
sign.

On 10/21/07, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> "Bryan Fodness" <bryan.fodness at gmail.com> wrote in
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> >    d, fs1, fs2, fs3, fs4, fs5, fs6, fs7, fs8, fs9, fs10,
> >    fs11, fs12, fs13, fs14, fs15, fs16, fs17, fs18, fs19,
> >    fs20, fs21, fs22, fs23, fs24, fs25, fs26, fs27, fs28,
> >    fs29, fs30, fs31, fs32, fs33, fs34, fs35, fs36, fs37,
> >    fs38, fs39, fs40 = line.split()
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> Because your tuple spans multiple lines I think you
> will need to put parens round it.
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> >>> a,b,c,d
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> NameError: name 'a' is not defined
> >>> (a,b,c,d
> ...
>
> So starting with a paren tells Python to ignore the newline.
> Without it it gets confused about what you want to do.
>
> HTH,
>
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> Alan Gauld
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