Re: Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-15 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 02/15/2016 07:06 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: [snip a lot...] Learn Python the Hard Way is pretty good some people say. Its online. Also Diving into Python is online written by the now offline Mark Pilgrim. I have a couple of "Hard Way" books and personally, I don't like his style of teachin

Re: Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-15 Thread Geoff Munn
On Monday, 15 February 2016 15:07:03 UTC, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Geoff Munn wrote: > > > On Sunday, 14 February 2016 13:39:52 UTC, Geoff Munn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Noob at the Python thing so here goes, > > > > > > I have copied a program to demonstrate

Re: Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-15 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Geoff Munn wrote: > On Sunday, 14 February 2016 13:39:52 UTC, Geoff Munn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Noob at the Python thing so here goes, > > > > I have copied a program to demonstrate control structures in Python but > get a syntax error at line 31, isint = False.

Re: Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-15 Thread Geoff Munn
On Sunday, 14 February 2016 13:39:52 UTC, Geoff Munn wrote: > Hi, > > Noob at the Python thing so here goes, > > I have copied a program to demonstrate control structures in Python but get a > syntax error at line 31, isint = False. I'm using Python 2.7.6 and Linux Mint > based around ubuntu14

Re: Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Geoff Munn wrote: > Hi, > > Noob at the Python thing so here goes, > > I have copied a program to demonstrate control structures in Python but get a > syntax error at line 31, isint = False. I'm using Python 2.7.6 and Linux Mint > based around ubuntu14.04.1. I h

Re: Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-14 Thread Peter Otten
Geoff Munn wrote: > Noob at the Python thing so here goes, > > I have copied a program to demonstrate control structures in Python but > get a syntax error at line 31, isint = False. Often the actual syntax error in your code is in one of the lines preceding the one that Python is complaining

Syntax error (The Python Book) Linux User and Developer Bookazine

2016-02-14 Thread Geoff Munn
Hi, Noob at the Python thing so here goes, I have copied a program to demonstrate control structures in Python but get a syntax error at line 31, isint = False. I'm using Python 2.7.6 and Linux Mint based around ubuntu14.04.1. I have pasted all the code below, #!/usr/bin/env python2 ''' We