[Q] Question from Python tutorial

[Jay O'Connor]

Young-Jin Lee wrote:

> Hi, I have a question from Python tutorial.
> The code segment in the page 60 (chapter 9. classes) is not executed.
> I don't know what I did wrong. Here is the code and the error I got.
>
> class MyClass:
>     "A simple example class"
>     i = 12345
>     def f( x ):
>         return 'hello world'
>
> x = MyClass()
>
> x.counter = 1
> while x.counter < 10:
>     x.counter = x.counter * 2
> print x.counter
>       ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> There is no typo, I have no idea of where this SyntaxError came from.
>
> Thanks in advance. Any comment would be greatly appreciated.

You probably cut and pasted the code from the tutorial.  When I cut and
pasted your code into IDLE, I got the same error.  When I manyually typed
the code, it works fine.  My guess is that the cut and paste didn't paste
properly and the interactive interpreter didn't make the right break
between the 2 and the word print

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