(Sorry for the answering delay, Google groups is very slow.) James:
>P.S. I don't understand a lot of what I have there, I got most of it from the >beginning tutorials and help sections. I have never programmed before, but >this is for a school assignment.< You must understand what you do at school, otherwise it's just wasted time, trust me. If you don't understand what you do, then it's better to do something else, like fishing, or reading things you do understand. Doing things like a robot eventually makes your brain dumb. Do you like to become dumb? You can't learn to program on the spot, but I suggest you to limit the things you don't understand as much as possible. And you can start a Python interpreter and try every single little small thing you put into your program (and you can look for them into the python documentation), so you can have an idea of what you are doing. You may even try to read the notes/things your teacher may have shown you. What's float()? What's raw_input()? What's the purpose of the 'integer' variable? What does break means, and what's its purpose there? Maybe learning what exceptions are now it too much early, so it may be better to not use that try-except at all, and just let your program fail and give an error if you don't input something good. This way you can reduce the things you don't understand. Better to show the teacher a bare-bones program that you understand a little, than a refined program that you don't understand at all. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
