[Tutor] New User-Need-Help

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Deborah Piotrowski
<spiceninja4u at gmail.com>wrote:

> It Didn't work.


First of all, reply to all.  You are sending messages to me only, not to
the group.  Other's may be able to help you better than I can.

Second.  "It didn't work" is not a useful answer.

So you have a file with two lines in it.  The first has a print statement.
The second has a raw_input statement.  When you run it, what happens
exactly? Do you get a traceback message telling you what the error is, and
on what line?



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> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Deborah Piotrowski <
>> spiceninja4u at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Joel Goldstick <
>>> joel.goldstick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Deborah Piotrowski <
>>>> spiceninja4u at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am very new to Python, I am using the e-book "Python Programming for
>>>>> the Absolute Beginner" and am starting with a simple "Game Over" Program.
>>>>>  This is the code:which is extremely simple!
>>>>> print"Game Over" raw_input("\n\nPress Enter Key to exit")
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> welcome Nicholas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One important thing about python is indentation is important.  You have
>>>> presented your code in a way that can't be.  Can you actually copy your
>>>> program and paste it into an email message.  Also, Windows, Linux, Mac?
>>>>
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>>>>> That's it. It is supposed to bring up a window that says "Game Over"
>>>>> and at the bottom say "Press enter Key to exit" and when you press the
>>>>> enter key it is supposed to exit(big suprise).
>>>>> But all it does is highlight "raw_input" and says "invalid syntax"
>>>>> Now, if I just put "print "Game Over"" then it says Game Over UNDERNEATH
>>>>> the code I just printed!
>>>>> now I am following the book to the *pixel* and that is not what is
>>>>> supposed to happen!
>>>>> Please email me back as soon as you get this...(if you are not to
>>>>> busy).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,Nicholas
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joel Goldstick
>>>> http://joelgoldstick.com
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Sorry, I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit with Python 3.3
>>> Here is the code in exact form
>>> print "Game Over"
>>>      raw_input("\n\nPress Enter Key to Exit")
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nicholas
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>> You need to unindent the raw_input like so:
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>> print "Game Over"
>> raw_input("\n\nPress Enter Key to Exit")
>>
>> In python you indent code blocks (like for loops, if statements, function
>> blocks, etc.).  You can't just indent from one line to the next in
>> sequential code or you will be told its a syntax error
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>>
>> --
>> Joel Goldstick
>> http://joelgoldstick.com
>>
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> --
> Nicholas J. Piotrowski




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Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com
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