Alright, so I've been trying to teach myself Python which, when compared to
my attempt to learn C++, is going pretty well.
But I've come across an issue that I can't figure out, so I figured I'd ask
the pro's.
Now it looks pretty weird in this format but it was copied exactly from IDLE
*****code follows*******
#What this program is suppose to do is print a sentence centered in a box
sentence = raw_input('Sentence: ')
screen_width = 80
text_width = len(sentence)
box_width = text_width + 6
left_margin = (screen_width - box_width) // 2
print
print ' ' * left_margin + '+' + '-' * (box_width-2) + '+'
print ' ' * left_margin + '| ' + ' ' * text_width + ' |'
print ' ' * left_margin + '| ' + ' ' sentence + ' |'
print ' ' * left_margin + '| ' + ' ' * text_width + ' |'
print ' ' * left_margin + '+' + '-' * (box_width-2) + ' |'
print
****end code****
Now that, even though copied straight from "Beginning Python: From Novice to
Professional", returns :
There's an error in your program: invalid syntax
with the word sentence highlighted (not the sentence when I'm defining the
name, the one in......uhm....the body of the code)
Now if i put * before sentence as it is with the rest of the variables, it
actually gets to the point where it asks me for the sentence, but after
inputting my sentence I receive:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/Programming/Python/sequence string multiplication example", line
16, in <module>
print ' ' * left_margin + '| ' + ' ' * sentence + ' |'
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'str'
Why can't I get it to do what it's supposed to do? What am I
missing/misunderstanding?
Very simply all its supposed to do is something like this (now bear with me
formating might distort this a bit lol)
+------------------------------------+
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| Like This |
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+------------------------------------+
Any help would be greatly appreciated
-Scott
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