Intermediate Python user needed help

[John Mordecai Dildy]

Thanks everyone that has put input into this its working on out error by error

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 5:03:50 PM UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/05/12 15:52, John Mordecai Dildy wrote:
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> > Current Problem at the moment
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> > 
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
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> >   File "ex26.py", line 66, in <module>
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> >     beans, jars, crates = secret_formula(start-point)
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> > NameError: name 'start' is not defined
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> > 
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> > anyone know how to make start defined
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> "start-point" is not a valid identifier as the "-" isn't permitted
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> in a variable name.  This is the case for just about every language
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> out there.  HTML/XML & CSS are the only languages that come to my
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> mind in which the dash is considered a valid part of an identifier.
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> 
> 
> You either mean something like "start_point" (with an underscore
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> instead of a minus), or you're performing a subtraction of "start
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> minus point", in which case you'd have to assign those values before
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> you use them.
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> 
> 
> -tkc