different errors, return outside function and others

[Tony]

Thank You, I now understand what i need to do now, and again Thanks

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Gabriel Genellina
<gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>wrote:

> En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:07:57 -0200, Tony <sternbrightblade at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
> ok thank you for that input, this is my first class in programming and its
>> the only one the school offers. im pretty sure those are supposed to be
>> modules
>> that im writting. would it make a difference if those were modules and not
>> functions? kinda stupid question there but im trying to learn as much as
>> possible.
>>
>
> Each module is a separate file, with extension .py
> If you put all your code in a single file, you write a single module.
> That's fine in this case, unless it grows to something unmanageable.
>
> Functions are blocks of code that have a name and "do" something specific,
> and usually return some result. They start with the keyword "def". You have
> defined several functions already, but called them "modules" in the
> comments, that's wrong and may be confusing.
>
> Also anything with def infront of it example def start(): would be a
>> function correct? also im Using 2.5 and the IDLE to do this
>>
>
> Exactly!
>
> I think you have written so much code without testing it. It's time to test
> every piece now. Start with... the start function, obviously!
>
> But before, you have to clean your code. There are a few strange lines that
> should not be there (all those lines on the left margin that aren't "def"
> statements, like intro_area(), alley()...). Just remove or comment them.
>
> Then you can start testing each function, one at a time. Simply call the
> function with the desired parameters (if any), right at the bottom of the
> file. To test the first one (start), use something like this:
>
> print "about to call start()"
> result = start()
> print "start() finished, result=", result
>
> and do the same for each individual function. Once you know each piece
> works fine, you can start combining them until you build the complete
> program.
>
>
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> Gabriel Genellina
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