Re: this must be a stupid question ...

2007-07-28 Thread Ben Finney
Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) It's not a stupid question, but it is a stupid Subject field. That's easy to fix though: in future, please write a Subject field that actually tells us what the message is about. > If I try to use [the $ symbol] in names,

Re: this must be a stupid question ...

2007-07-28 Thread Gary Herron
Stef Mientki wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, > I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, > I get a compiler error, > so it probably has some special meaning. > > thanks, > Stef

Re: this must be a stupid question ...

2007-07-28 Thread David Wilson
On 28/07/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, > I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, > I get a compiler error, > so it probably has some sp

Re: this must be a stupid question ...

2007-07-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-07-28, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help > files, I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, I get a compiler error, so it > probably has some sp

this must be a stupid question ...

2007-07-28 Thread Stef Mientki
but I can;t find the answer ;-) As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. If I try to use it in names, I get a compiler error, so it probably has some special meaning. thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mai