<div>Thanks Adam and Alan for responding, I'm very much a non-programmer, but my 14 year old son wants to learn, so I have to learn to teach him...slow process lol. </div>
<div>Happy Thanksgiving!</div>
<div>Jeff<br><br><br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Alan Gauld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Ok, I found the problem, I had saved the file as random.py looks like that<br>was a no-no. Its working now that I changed the name.<br>
</blockquote><br></div>Yes that's a bad idea. You probably figured out why, but just in case...<br><br>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>import random<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>It tries to import itself, which then tries to import itself,<br>
which then..... infinite loop time...<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br>Alan Gauld<br>Author of the Learn to Program web site<br><a href="http://www.alan-g.me.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.alan-g.me.uk/</a></font>
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