[Tutor] bug hunting again

Kyle Babich Kyle Babich" <kb@kb5.org
Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:47:56 +0000


I'm using Python 2.2 for Windows.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:40:50 -0700 (PDT), "Danny Yoo"
<dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> said:
> 
> 
> > If you're stuck using 1.52 and can't upgrade to a newer version, then you
> > may need to reword things.  The equivalent way of saying:
> >
> >     if username.lower() in "kyle jason chelsea john cheryl".split():
> >
> > in 1.52 style would be:
> >
> >     if string.lower(username) in \
> >         string.split("kyle jason chelsea john cheryl")
> >
> > (The line was getting long, so I use a "continuation" character '\' here
> > to tell Python that there's more stuff on the next line.)
> 
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> 
> Oh, one other thing: if you do the above, you'll need to put the line:
> 
> ###
> import string
> ###
> 
> at the top of your program, so that Python knows that when we say
> 'string', we mean the standard 'string' library:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-string.html
> 
> 
> Hope this helps!
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Kyle