[Tutor] why does this not work

[frederico Batista]

Well then, sorry about it Dave.
My bad.
 On Apr 24, 2013 5:05 AM, "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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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