On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 06:42 am, Chris Kavanagh wrote: > While I appreciate the help greatly I thought I had put the entire > traceback of the error. I was posting here and on StackOverflow, and > suppose I got confused.
We all make mistakes. I got distracted and forgot to link you to http://sscce.org/ ("Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example") which might have helped you understand where I was coming from. I understand that when you're focused on fixing this one error, its hard to care about the big picture, but the bigger picture is that the error you had was actually a pretty basic problem. Learning how to debug your own code is the most important thing we can teach you, in the sense of the old proverb about giving a person a fish versus teaching them how to fish. What I hope you learned from my post is: - The traceback contains valuable debugging information, particularly when it shows the actual line of code that fails. If you're not reading it, you should. If you're not understanding it, you should ask about it. - Most bugs are localised, and if you can isolate the bug, not only do you help us to help you, but you may even solve the problem yourself. - And *least important of all*, hopefully I gave you some solutions to your immediate problem. > 2nd, you say you "don't want to play guessing games", yet complain about > "300 lines of irrelevant code", lol. Which way is it? Do you want the > code, or not? How do I know what's relevant or irrelevant when I'm clearly > confused? On Stack, if you don't post the entire code, you are asked to do > so. I would think it would be the same procedure here. I'm pretty sure that on Stackoverflow they don't insist on you posting your entire program. What if it is 100,000 lines of code split over twenty files? I think they ask for the same as the SSCCE site above, a minimum sample of code which they can run and see the error themselves. Have you got a solution to your immediate problem now, or are you still looking for help? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
