[Tutor] Trajectory Syntax Error

[Emile van Sebille]

On 3/30/2011 7:26 AM Carla Jenkins said...
> I am new to Python learnig for a class.  When I try using trajectory I receive an error.  Here is the code:
>
> def logistic(x):
> 	return 4*x*(1-x)
> ds_logistic11=trajectory(logistic,0.11)
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>


Hi Carla,

Be sure to copy and paste in exactly the code that results in the error.

As you can see below when I use your example there is no error.  This 
makes it hard as we now have to guess what you may have done.

I do see one issue -- when you intend to execute your function you need 
to enclose the parameters in parens.  eg, use logistic(0.11)

Emile



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 >>> def logistic(x):
...     return 4*x*(1-x)
...
 >>> def trajectory(a,b):pass
...
 >>> ds_logistic11=trajectory(logistic,0.11)
 >>>