Everything worked once I placed semicolons after each line in the definition of the function.
On Oct 21, 5:22 pm, "D. S. McNeil" <dsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not sure what you mean by > > > Also if I have the terms, and return on separate lines in the > > definition then I get this error. > > You _have_ to have the different statements on separate lines, like I > did. (Unless you use a semicolon to separate the statements, I > suppose.) Did you combine them? It looks like you did but it's hard > to be sure because sometimes carriage returns are lost during the > cut-and-paste process. > > Paying attention to the syntax is even more important Python than in > many other languages because Python is whitespace-sensitive-- if you > don't use the right indentation, the code might not work. I think it > might be useful to read through a Python tutorial if you're more > familiar with the syntax from other languages. It won't take too long > but may clear up some of the confusion. > > As for the NameError: > > > Well I did use your method but I still get an error. > > Actually, it doesn't look like you did use my code. You modified the > last line to read "return term1 + term2 if t != 0 else infinity", > thereby introducing a variable t which you hadn't defined, which leads > to the NameError explaining -- reasonably enough -- that you're > referring to a name 't' which you didn't define. > > Does that make sense? > > Doug -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
