[Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Joshua Nikkel wrote:
> 
> ah that was it.  I had a variable named len earlier.  On a restart it 
> was fine.  Thanks!
> 

Besides that you have a HUGE error!!!
Your spelling! It should be :

 >>> s = 'supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso'

:P



> 
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Robert Berman <bermanrl at embarqmail.com 
> <mailto:bermanrl at embarqmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     No. Not so.
> 
>     Observe, please:
>     Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May  7 2008, 15:19:09)
>     [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
> 
>     Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> 
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>     IDLE 1.2.2      ==== No Subprocess ====
>      >>> import math
>      >>> math.sqrt(1054.12)
>     32.467214232206615
>      >>> s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>      >>> s
>     'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>      >>> len(s)
>     34
>      >>>
> 
>     Have you by any chance assigned the function len to something else?
>     Otherwise, it should work really well. If you do help(len) in the
>     shell, wha dos it tell you.
> 
>     Robert
> 
>     Joshua Nikkel wrote:
>>     I've pasted the following from my python shell.  Please note that
>>     the first two lines of code are taken directly from the standard
>>     tutorial files under section 3.1.2. <http://3.1.2.>  Will someone
>>     please tell me why something as basic and straightforward as this
>>     will not work?  Everything else seems to work just fine, but not
>>     this.  All I need is someway to get the length of a string...
>>
>>     please help,
>>
>>     nosh
>>
>>
>>     Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32
>>     bit (Intel)] on win32
>>     Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>
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>>     IDLE 1.2.2      ==== No Subprocess ====
>>     >>> s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>     >>> len(s)
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>       File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>>         len(s)
>>     TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>     >>> s
>>     'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>     >>> len(s)
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>       File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>>         len(s)
>>     TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>     >>>