Chris, I tried placing in the format you suggested and received this error message:
END PROGRAM. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 396, in <module> ValueError: incomplete format key ____________________ On Friday, December 28, 2012 11:10:10 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:01 AM, alan wrote: > I am working with Python > looping in SPSS. What are the limits for the > > for var1, var2, var3 in > zip(Variable1, Variable2, Variable3): > > statement in the Python looping > function within SPSS? I am getting an error message, I presume because of > wrapping or length. Imagine the above statement, but expanded, as I am > working with more than 28 variables in this loop, and even making the names > really short is making the statement too long. Is it impossible to wrap and > make this work? I know there are ways to wrap strings, including lists of > variables, but here I have a statement/function. At what point are you > wrapping it? Can you show the wrapped form and the error message? As a > general rule, you can safely wrap anything that's inside parentheses. for ( > var1, var2, var3 ) in zip( Variable1, Variable2, Variable3 ): pass That may > be a tad excessive, but you get the idea :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
