Paul McGuire wrote: > "Kevin F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:44:44 -0500, Kevin F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: >>> >>> >>>> However, if I try to actually download the messages themselves, my >>>> python editor highlights 'msgSize' and says "invalid syntax" when I run >>>> the following subsequent lines of code: >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------ >>>> emails = [] >>>> for msg in messagesInfo: >>>> msgNum = int(split(msg, " ")[0] >>>> msgSize = int(split(msg, " ")[1] >>>> if(msgSize < 20000): >>>> messages = server.retr(msgNum)[1] >>>> messages = join(message, "\n") >>>> emails.append(message) >>> Look very closely at your indentation >>> >>> >> I fixed the indentation to: >> >> emails = [] >> for msg in messagesInfo: >> msgNum = int(split(msg, " ")[0] >> msgSize = int(split(msg, " ")[1] >> if(msgSize < 20000): >> messages = server.retr(msgNum)[1] >> messages = join(message, "\n") >> emails.append(message) >> >> >> and it still doesn't work, what's wrong? > > See comments. > -- Paul > > > emails = [] > for msg in messagesInfo: > msgNum = int(split(msg, " ")[0] # line is missing closing paren > msgSize = int(split(msg, " ")[1] # line is missing closing paren, > too > if(msgSize < 20000): # this line should not be > further indented > messages = server.retr(msgNum)[1] > messages = join(message, "\n") > emails.append(message) > > > thanks, that helped fix the syntax error, however, now when i run it, it gives me an error for 'split', saying "name 'split' is not defined"
i'm new to python so bear with me but how do i fix this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
