[Tutor] python tutorial issue

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Oct 19 04:42:02 EDT 2020


On 19/10/2020 01:29, Ross Wilson wrote:
> On 18/10/2563 BE 22:42, Christopher Loy wrote:
>> def fib(n):  # write Fibonacci series up to n
>> 	“””Print a Fibonacci series up to n.”””
>> 	a, b= 0, 1
>> 	while a <  n:
>> 		print(a, end=‘ ‘)
> 
> Assuming that all the funny characters in your post were NOT in your code...

I'm seeing the "funny characters" as slanted quote signs.
Hence my reply, but...

> You appear to be using python 2 which is the standard python that is 
> installed on a Mac.  You can check this by executing this in your terminal:

Good catch. Its so long since I used Python 2 that
I'd forgotten that the named parameters were added
in v3. I think you've got the answer.

To the OP; if you had posted the full error message
we would have seen that in the first line of the text.
Please always post error messages in full.

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