On Oct 30, 2008, at 08:11 , kcrisman wrote:
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>
>
>> Coming in late, but if this is literally what your example is, I
>> think
>> the problem is the "f(x)=x^3". Can you do that?
>>
>> If I try this
>>
>> def foo(x):
>> f(x) = x^3
>> return f(x)
>>
>> on 3.2.alpha0, without any doctstring, it blows up with
>
>
> Thanks for your thoughts. Interesting, because I don't have any
> problems with that! In fact, I think your problem there is that you
> have x as both the input and the variable in your definition. E.g.,
> your example blows up for me too, but I have no problems with the
> following:
[snip]
> It sounds like there are several interesting things developing out of
> this thread!
Yup. I was a bit too focused on the quote mark issues :-}
Removing the quotes, as well as the reuse of formal variables :-},
from the picture makes things a bit clearer.
It does look like there's a confusion arising in the parser when too
many quotes intrude...FWIW, if I use two 's in the doc string, things
work correctly (or, at least, as expected) :-}
Justin
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