[Tutor] [Fwd: Re: From Newbie]

[Marilyn Davis]

On Sun, June 22, 2008 7:55 am, paul at assured-networks.co.uk wrote:

> hi Danny,
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> As far as i am aware you must declare your variable first, something like
> a=0

That's a good thought.  But he did initialize his variable.

The '!' and the '=' in '!=' are all smashed together without spaces.

So:

> while a ! = 0:

Should be:

while a != 0:

That should get you going again.

Marilyn Davis


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> On Sun Jun 22 10:45 , Danny Laya  sent:
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> Hi ! I have learned wiki tutor for non-programmer and I found some hill
> that stopping me. In  Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python/Count to 10,
> wiki ask me to write this code : a = 1 s = 0 print 'Enter Numbers to add to
> the sum.' print 'Enter 0 to quit.' while a != 0: print 'Current Sum:', s
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> int(raw_input('Number? ')) s = s + a print 'Total Sum =', s
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> But when i write while a != 0: and then i press enter,
> python terminal tell me :
>>>> while a ! = 0:
> File "", line 1
> while a ! = 0: ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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  find my mistake, guys ? Sorry to bother you, I try to
> find the answer in google, but I can't found the answer. Please help me
> soon guys, whatever your answer. If you don't want to answer my question,
> please give me some site that could answer this newbie question. Thank's.
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