[Tutor] [Fwd: Re: trouble with "if"]

[Adam Urbas]

Ahahahahaha... I have figured these out beyond comprehension and power.
Wahhaha.  It feels good to get something to work correctly.  Thanks much
Andre.  I don't quite understand the putting of things inside the
parentheses, but I've discovered that I don't really need to, because def
text(): works just fine with everything I've done so far.

On 5/30/07, Adam Urbas <jped.aru at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't exactly show you the error message anymore, because the program is
> now screwed up in so many ways that I can't even get it to do the things it
> used to.
>
> It says things like ERROR: Inconsistent indentation detected!
> 1) Your indentation is outright incorrect (easy to fix), OR
> 2) Your indentation mixes tabs and spaces.  Then it tells me to untabify
> everything, which i did and it still gives this message.  I've started
> completely over with the exact same indentation and that one works.
>
> Oh my gosh this gmail is a fricken crack head... none of this stuff was
> here last night.  I have no idea what was going on then, but everything you
> guys said is right here.  The plain text is right next to the Check
> spelling, the reply to all is right above send and save now and in the
> corner near the little arrow.  Well, it's working now.
>
> Ok, so if i have a section of code that is:
>
> answer=(2+3):
> print "answer", answer
>
> so for the code above I would put: (I think I would have to have the two
> numbers and the addition thing in there wouldn't I; I saw something like
> this on Alan's tutorial last night.)
>
> def answer(2,3):
>     answer=(2+3)
>     print "answer",answer
>
> That is obviously not right.:
>
> There's an error in your program:
> invalid syntax
>
> when it says that it highlights the 2: def answer( 2+3):
>
> Ok I think I understand these now.  Thanks for the advice.  I have this
> now:
>
> def answer():
>     print("answer")
> answer()
>
> It works too, yay!
> Thanks,
>
> Au
>
>
>
> On 5/30/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > 2007/5/30, Brian van den Broek < broek at cc.umanitoba.ca>:
> > > Another fwd, folks.
> > >
> > > Brian vdB
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: Re: [Tutor] trouble with "if"
> > > Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:28:46 -0500
> > > From: Adam Urbas <jped.aru at gmail.com>
> > > To: Brian van den Broek <broek at cc.umanitoba.ca>
> > > References: < BAY103-W11DE2E62FD41449A952D68B12F0 at phx.gbl>
> > > <465C64A4.60602 at cc.umanitoba.ca>
> > > < ef52818c0705292107n1ee0c105k54c02ccf4d85f7c6 at mail.gmail.com>
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble with the parentheses after the def thing().  IDLE
> > > says that there is something wrong with it.  If I type something
> > > between them, it says that there is something wrong with the quotation
> > > marks.  If I just leave it like (), then it says that something is
> > > wrong with what is after the parentheses.  Unless my code is supposed
> > > to go between the parentheses.  I'll try that.
> >
> > Between the parentheses should go the variables you use (if any) when
> > calling the function. For example:
> >
> > def sayhello():
> >     print "Hello"
> >
> > You don't have any parameters here, so there's nothing between the
> > brackets
> >
> > def say(word):
> >     print word
> >
> > Now there is one parameter, namely word.
> >
> > def sayboth(word1,word2):
> >     print word1
> >     print word2
> >
> > Here there are two parameters, word1 and word2.
> >
> > The number of parameters should be the same as the number of
> > parameters you use when calling the function:
> >
> > sayhello()
> > say("One text")
> > sayboth("One text","Another text")
> >
> > There is a much used method to make some of the parameters optional,
> > but we'll not go into that.
> >
> > To know what is going wrong with your program, I would have to see the
> > program (or a simplified version of it that still goes wrong) and
> > preferably also the exact error message you are getting.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
> > ICQ: 6260644  --  Skype: a_engels
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