Simple question

[Phil Dobbin]

On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw the 'e-17' appended to the end but was unsure of its meaning (
>> quite a number of things are introduced in the book with clarification
>> of their meaning not forthcoming 'til later on).
> 
> Recommendation: If you don't understand something, keep it there :)
> You can just copy and paste from the Python interactive interpreter
> (command line or IDLE) straight into the email; it'll be easier to
> explain, that way.
> 
> This is *especially* true of tracebacks. You might not see the
> difference, but to us, it's often hugely helpful to see the entire
> exception report.

Good advice.

Truth is I'm writing emails on my laptop & attempting Python on a
Desktop machine so I lazily copied by eye. My mistake.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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