On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:51:41 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Seymore4Head ><Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote: >> I tried list(range(10) I thought that would work in Python 3. It >> didn't. > >This is your problem: You say "it didn't work". That is almost *never* >the right thing to say or to think. What happened when you tried that? >Did you get a SyntaxError because of the omitted close parenthesis? >Did the interpreter prompt for more input? Did a velociraptor come out >of nowhere and try to kill you [1]? > I understand that it makes it easier for you if I can describe better the error I get, but by the time I ask for help here I have tried many different things to get the error to go away. I will try in the future to do better at this. For now, I am just putting that exercise behind me. I do try to find out how to do things before asking first. I tried so many things last night, I had to go back to an old message to get code that worked again. Thanks >When you come back to python-list, you should say exactly what you did >and exactly what happened, not "I tried X and it didn't work". Copy >and paste from your interactive session - do NOT retype, because you >introduce new errors. It's very hard to help you when you don't >explain what you're doing, and just keep on telling us how frustrated >you are. > >ChrisA > >[1] http://xkcd.com/292/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
