[Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...

[Joshua Nikkel]

I've pasted the following from my python shell.  Please note that the first
two lines of code are taken directly from the standard tutorial files under
section 3.1.2.  Will someone please tell me why something as basic and
straightforward as this will not work?  Everything else seems to work just
fine, but not this.  All I need is someway to get the length of a string...

please help,

nosh


Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
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>>> s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>> len(s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
    len(s)
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>> s
'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>> len(s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    len(s)
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>>
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