Thanks everyone that has put input into this its working on out error by error
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 5:03:50 PM UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote: > On 08/05/12 15:52, John Mordecai Dildy wrote: > > > Current Problem at the moment > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "ex26.py", line 66, in <module> > > > beans, jars, crates = secret_formula(start-point) > > > NameError: name 'start' is not defined > > > > > > anyone know how to make start defined > > > > "start-point" is not a valid identifier as the "-" isn't permitted > > in a variable name. This is the case for just about every language > > out there. HTML/XML & CSS are the only languages that come to my > > mind in which the dash is considered a valid part of an identifier. > > > > You either mean something like "start_point" (with an underscore > > instead of a minus), or you're performing a subtraction of "start > > minus point", in which case you'd have to assign those values before > > you use them. > > > > -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
