[Tutor] List of ints

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/03/2015 00:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 04:50:41PM +1000, Phil wrote:
>
>> count [0] += 1
>>
>> This fails with the following error;
>>
>> TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable
>
> I know that others have already solved the problem, but here is
> something which might help you solve similar problems in the future.
> The way to debug simple things like this is quite simple:
>
> print count[0]
>
> which will show you that count[0] is a list [0], not an int 0, and you
> are trying to add [0]+1 which doesn't work.
>
> Never under-estimate the usefulness of a few print calls when debugging.
>
>

About time we threw in the use of the interactive interpreter for trying 
code snippets as well, just for good measure :)

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Mark Lawrence