[Tutor] Question on running a small Python program

[DL Neil]

On 15/08/2020 02:27, eric grunfeld wrote:
> Thank you DN for getting back to me.
> 
> Yes - I am taking a class that is being conducted by Google through the 
> Coursera platform
> 
> And appreciate you sharing this Python docs website with me. I am sure 
> that it will come in handy as I continue to learn Python.


One of my (professional) concerns with some of these courses, and it is 
a particular habit with Google, is to assume that everything will work 
first-time. You and I both know that is not the way the world works - 
well not all of the time, some of the time...

May I recommend that you read the first three (or so) 'chapters' of the 
Python Tutorial - as linked from docs URL given earlier. You will likely 
gain from reading much-the-same-stuff, but written from a slightly 
different view-point (and it may also 'fill some gaps'!). Thereafter you 
will establish your own ideas for its use, keeping in-sync with your 
progress on the Coursera offering...


Meantime, addressing the 'hole' in the course material, and to help with 
the particular difficulties experienced earlier, try: 
https://www.scalyr.com/blog/python-stack-trace-understanding-using-debug/ 
(skim the first few paragraphs of 'suit-talk' and concentrate on the 
'meat' of how to read error messages and make sense of a "stack trace").


FYI: list-protocol is to ReplyAll/ReplyToList (so that others following 
the conversation may continue to benefit) and not to top-post (appearing 
to answer the question before it is asked).
-- 
Regards =dn