[Tutor] why does this not work

[Roelof Wobben]

Thanks for all the remarks.

The problem was indeed a missing . at the end.

Roelof

> To: tutor at python.org
> From: alan.gauld at btinternet.com
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:36 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] why does this not work
> 
> On 24/04/13 04:27, frederico Batista wrote:
> > Dave, you clearly don't know codecademy.
> > Please be nice to him.
> 
> To be fair to Dave he was very polite and showed the OP all the things 
> that were needed to enable the users of this forum to help him. Very few 
> of us are familiar with codeacademy - indeed until this thread I don't 
> think I've come across it before. I certainly didn't know it
> had its own runtime environment.
> 
> > Also, I recommend the codecademy forums. They have a lot of material
> > about every exercise.
> 
> Posting in the most specific forum is always best so if the issue is 
> with codeacademy that would be the best place. But I guess it would be 
> hard for the OP to figure out if his problem is with Python or with 
> Codeacademy...
> 
> >     Wrong?
> >     1) your message is in html, not text.  So the formatting is messy.
> >       It could have been worse, so please learn how to make your email
> >     program behave.
> >     2) You didn't show your whole program.  If this is all you have in
> >     the file, then nothing will print because nothing calls your function.
> >     3) You didn't describe your environment, including python version &
> >     OS.  And if Oscar's conjecture is correct, all bets are off because
> >     most of us won't be familiar with the strange environment.
> >     4) I can't see how you could possibly get the message:
> >     'It looks like output other than yes/no does not return "Sorry, I
> >     didn\'t understand you."'  And in fact the last part of the message
> >     is different than the literal in the program, so you've got a typo
> >     besides.  Please use cut&paste to show your actual code, your actual
> >     output.
> >
> >     After reading oscar's comment, my guess is that codeacademy (not
> >     Python) is complaining about the period at the end of your last
> >     literal string.
> >
> >     --
> >     DaveA
> 
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> Alan G
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