On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I saw the 'e-17' appended to the end but was unsure of its meaning ( >> quite a number of things are introduced in the book with clarification >> of their meaning not forthcoming 'til later on). > > Recommendation: If you don't understand something, keep it there :) > You can just copy and paste from the Python interactive interpreter > (command line or IDLE) straight into the email; it'll be easier to > explain, that way. > > This is *especially* true of tracebacks. You might not see the > difference, but to us, it's often hugely helpful to see the entire > exception report.
Good advice. Truth is I'm writing emails on my laptop & attempting Python on a Desktop machine so I lazily copied by eye. My mistake. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard, RHEL 7, Ubuntu Precise & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc Based in London, UK -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
