Intermediate Python user needed help

[John Mordecai Dildy]

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 4:24:45 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:51:31 -0700, John Mordecai Dildy wrote:
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> > Ive tried to delete the spaces in 75 and 76 to see if it made a change
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> > but it has not made a difference to it.
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> What made you think that the problem could be fixed by deleting *spaces*?
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> In general, making random changes to code in the hope that syntax errors 
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> will just go away is not the right way to fix broken code. Even if you 
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> succeed, since you don't know what you did to fix it, how do you know 
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> that your next change won't break it again?
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> Almost always, when you have a mysterious syntax error on a line that 
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> appears to be perfectly fine, the reason is a missing bracket of some 
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> sort on a previous line. (For Americans, I mean parentheses, brackets or 
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> braces; for Britons and Australians, round square or curly brackets; for 
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> everyone else, whatever you call them.)
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> Steven

Well i have put the spaces back into the code after i did that and had no hope it worked though.

thank you steven for giving me some input