On Sunday, August 5, 2012 4:24:45 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:51:31 -0700, John Mordecai Dildy wrote: > > > > > Ive tried to delete the spaces in 75 and 76 to see if it made a change > > > but it has not made a difference to it. > > > > What made you think that the problem could be fixed by deleting *spaces*? > > > > In general, making random changes to code in the hope that syntax errors > > will just go away is not the right way to fix broken code. Even if you > > succeed, since you don't know what you did to fix it, how do you know > > that your next change won't break it again? > > > > Almost always, when you have a mysterious syntax error on a line that > > appears to be perfectly fine, the reason is a missing bracket of some > > sort on a previous line. (For Americans, I mean parentheses, brackets or > > braces; for Britons and Australians, round square or curly brackets; for > > everyone else, whatever you call them.) > > > > > > -- > > Steven
Well i have put the spaces back into the code after i did that and had no hope it worked though. thank you steven for giving me some input -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
