[Tutor] Program Questions

[Adelein and Jeremy]

--- Lloyd Kvam <pythonTutor at venix.com> wrote:
> print "\n"
> print "TRANSACTION COMPLETED"
> 
> You need quotes around string literals, pieces of text that were
> never assigned a name.
> 

She did have quotes.
This is what you apparently saw:

> >                   def MenuOption(self, option, Account):
> >                                 if option == 1:
> > 			print \n
> > 			Account.deposit(input(Deposit amount: $))
> > 			print \n
> > 			print TRANSACTION COMPLETED
> > 			print \n
> > 		elif option == 2:
> > 			print \n
> > 			Account.withdraw(input(Withdraw amount: $))
> > 			print \n
> > 			print TRANSACTION COMPLETED
> > 			print \n
> > 		elif option == 3:
> > 			print \n
> > 			Account.trans()
> > 			print \n
> > 			print QUERY COMPLETED
> > 			print \n

This is what I saw (there are single quotes around each string
literal):

                  def MenuOption(self, option, Account):
                                if option == 1:
			print ‘\n’
			Account.deposit(input(“Deposit amount: $”))
			print ‘\n’
			print ‘TRANSACTION COMPLETED’
			print ‘\n’
		elif option == 2:
			print ‘\n’
			Account.withdraw(input(“Withdraw amount: $”))
			print ‘\n’
			print ‘TRANSACTION COMPLETED’
			print ‘\n’
		elif option == 3:
			print ‘\n’
			Account.trans()
			print ‘\n’
			print ‘QUERY COMPLETED’
			print ‘\n’

> I suspect the elif problems come from using a mix of tabs and
> spaces in
> lining things up.  Python uses 8 spaces per tab, but your editor
> could
> be different.  If your editor was using tab stops of four spaces,
> you
> could mix tabs and spaces in a way that looked reasonable in your
> editor, but looks unreasonable to the Python compiler.

If indeed that is the problem, then this is also the problem with the
print statement. I see no other error - could be missing something
though.

HTH
Jeremy


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