Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Dave Peterson
Page 7: Very first example doesn't compile: syntax error Pate 11: 2nd example: syntax error Page 12, printing digits: syntax error Page 13, printing a number: syntax error page 14, statements: syntax error -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Dave Peterson inva...@gmail.com wrote: Page 7: Very first example doesn't compile: syntax error Pate 11: 2nd example: syntax error Page 12, printing digits: syntax error Page 13, printing a number: syntax error page 14, statements: syntax error Let me guess,

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-08 14:36 PM, Dave Peterson wrote: Page 7: Very first example doesn't compile: syntax error Pate 11: 2nd example: syntax error Page 12, printing digits: syntax error Page 13, printing a number: syntax error page 14, statements: syntax error This book was written for the 2.x versions

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
The book covers Python 2.x syntax. You might have downloaded Python 3.1, which has different syntax then Python 2.x. From what I can tell, the first example on page 7 is print 1 + 1. Try issuing this command: print(1 + 1) If everything goes well, and you get '2' as the answer, then you're

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread David Malcolm
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:53 -0800, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: The book covers Python 2.x syntax. You might have downloaded Python 3.1, which has different syntax then Python 2.x. From what I can tell, the first example on page 7 is print 1 + 1. Try issuing this command: print(1 + 1) If

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 8, 10:14 pm, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:53 -0800, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: The book covers Python 2.x syntax. You might have downloaded Python 3.1, which has different syntax then Python 2.x. From what I can tell, the first example on page 7 is