On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:30 AM, John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > In [7]: 1 + not(len(L) % 2) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > File "<ipython console>", line 1 > 1 + not(len(L) % 2) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
This appears to be a limitation of the parser; it's trying to interpret "not" as a binary operator. 1 + (not(len(L) % 2)) Works just fine with parentheses to enforce the correct interpretation. This also works in Python 3.2, fwiw (except that you need list(range(5)) to create the sample list). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
