[Tutor] Databases in Python

[christopher.henk at allisontransmission.com]

aug dawg wrote on 08/24/2010 01:13:01 PM:

> It's not catching that, but I haven't gotten there with the bugs yet. 
One more thing I can't figure out.
> 
> line 11
>     select-db = raw_input("Which database to add to? >> ")
> SyntaxError: can't assign to operator
> 
> I think it might be the >> at the end, but when I try it in the Python 
interpreter, it works fine.
> 
The error is triggered by your variable name.  You can't use a dash, 
Python is interpreting that as a minus sign.  You can use the underscore 
"_" instead.

more here:
http://www.pasteur.fr/formation/infobio/python/ch02s03.html
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers


Chris
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