Linuxguy123 wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, but is there a limit to the size of function names > in Python ? > > I named a function getSynclientVersion() and I got an error when I > called it.
No no, don't tell us what error you got! I love guessing games. I'm guessing you got either a SyntaxError or a NameError. > I renamed the same function to getSCVersion() and it called > fine. >>> def python_allows_really_long_function_names_with_no_problem(): ... print "hello world" ... >>> python_allows_really_long_function_names_with_no_problem() hello world >>> >>> ptyhon_allows_really_long_function_names_with_no_problem() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'ptyhon_allows_really_long_function_names_with_no_problem' is not defined Can you spot the difference? More importantly, can you see how the error message actually tells you what the error is? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
