The stupidest question ever seen in this newsgroup...

[Will Ware]

Gabriel Dupuis (gdupuis at rocler.qc.ca) wrote:
: #!/usr/bin/python
: x = y / 2
: ...other stuff...
: [...NameError...]

Python is complaining that it hasn't heard of a variable called
"y", so when you ask for "y / 2", it can't find it. You could
simply define y like this, _before_ the "x = y / 2" statement:

y = 111298372

But if you do that, you'll need to edit the script every time you
want to factor a new number. So you might want to do something
like this, where you can get the number from the command line:

import sys
y = int(eval(sys.argv[1]))

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