[Tutor] Program Questions

[Lloyd Kvam]

(I failed to send this to the list earlier)

I saved the original email as a file so that I could examine it
directly.

The quotes in the original email are 0x91 and 0x92 characters and
apparently came from a word processing program.  My email program
(evolution) simply dropped them.  They are in the latin-1 control
character range (0x80 - 0x9f) and are not encodings of displayable
characters.  Presumably they originated from a Windows Cp1252 encoding.

The tabs and spaces are inconsistent.  I assume the tab stops were set
to half inch or something like that within a word processing program.

The bottom line is that programs should be edited with a program editor
rather than a word processor.  On Windows, notepad will work in a pinch,
but idle or pythonwin are MUCH better free options.  I suppose this is a
drawback with Python if you are using the wrong tools to edit your
code.  With most languages the blocks are marked with clearly visible
characters.


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:24, Adelein and Jeremy wrote:
> --- 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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