Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-03 Thread Duncan Booth
ptn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PASCAL -->PYTHON > 5 div 2 --> 5/2 better: 5//2 The behaviour of 5/2 varies according to command line options and/or __future__ imports. e.g. If you start Python with the -Qwarn option 5/2 will generate a warning; if you start P

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-02 Thread Dustin MacDonald
Ah. Thank you everyone. Sorry for not replying earlier, real life got in the way :) Gerry Herron, Tim Delaney, Mark Peters: Thank you. Switching from parentheses to square brackets fixed the code, and yes, Tim, you were right. It was a list I was working with. And thanks for those links Tim. John

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-02 Thread John Machin
On Jul 3, 9:04 am, Dustin MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And Cameron: Ah, yes. It does reduce the confusion. I do know that > square brackets are used for *creating* a dictionary (blah = ["A", > "B", "C"], That's a list, not a dictionary. > so I figured the same would apply to accessing

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-02 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Square brackets indicate the index into a sequence (like a list) > I'm wary of this line, especially in isolation. I hope it reduces, rather than

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-02 Thread ptn
> > Problem 6: big_randomized_int can only have values in 0, 1, ..., 98, > 99. So small_randomized_int will have the value 0, always. > > Perhaps you meant: > small_randomised_float = big_randomized_int / 100.0 > > > small_randomized_int = Round(small_randomized_int, 2) > > # R

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-02 Thread John Machin
On Jul 2, 2:40 pm, Dustin MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This is my first time posting to this newsgroup, and although I > maintain my netiquette I might've missed something specific to the > newsgroup, so hopefully you can avoid flaming me if I have :) I > apologize for t

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-01 Thread Mark Peters
> **weights_array(randomizing_counter) = small_randomized_int > > The starred line is the one getting the error message: "SyntaxError: > can't assign to function call" > > Now, I do understand what this means. I'm trying to assign to a > function instead of the value that the function shoul

RE: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-01 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Dustin MacDonald wrote: > [code] > randomizing_counter = 0 > # Put the loop counter for the randomizing to zero. > until_val = 36 > # Set the "until val" to 36. We'll compare them to make sure we're not > at the end of our wordlist_both. > > while randomizing_counter < until_val: > big_rand

Re: Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-01 Thread Gary Herron
Dustin MacDonald wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This is my first time posting to this newsgroup, and although I > maintain my netiquette I might've missed something specific to the > newsgroup, so hopefully you can avoid flaming me if I have :) I > apologize for the length of this post but I figure the

Probably simple syntax error

2007-07-01 Thread Dustin MacDonald
Hi everyone. This is my first time posting to this newsgroup, and although I maintain my netiquette I might've missed something specific to the newsgroup, so hopefully you can avoid flaming me if I have :) I apologize for the length of this post but I figure the more information the better. My pr