I can't exactly show you the error message anymore, because the program is
now screwed up in so many ways that I can't even get it to do the things it
used to.

It says things like ERROR: Inconsistent indentation detected!
1) Your indentation is outright incorrect (easy to fix), OR
2) Your indentation mixes tabs and spaces.  Then it tells me to untabify
everything, which i did and it still gives this message.  I've started
completely over with the exact same indentation and that one works.

Oh my gosh this gmail is a fricken crack head... none of this stuff was here
last night.  I have no idea what was going on then, but everything you guys
said is right here.  The plain text is right next to the Check spelling, the
reply to all is right above send and save now and in the corner near the
little arrow.  Well, it's working now.

Ok, so if i have a section of code that is:

answer=(2+3):
print "answer", answer

so for the code above I would put: (I think I would have to have the two
numbers and the addition thing in there wouldn't I; I saw something like
this on Alan's tutorial last night.)

def answer(2,3):
   answer=(2+3)
   print "answer",answer

That is obviously not right.:

There's an error in your program:
invalid syntax

when it says that it highlights the 2: def answer(2+3):

Ok I think I understand these now.  Thanks for the advice.  I have this now:

def answer():
   print("answer")
answer()

It works too, yay!
Thanks,

Au



On 5/30/07, Andre Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2007/5/30, Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Another fwd, folks.
>
> Brian vdB
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] trouble with "if"
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:28:46 -0500
> From: Adam Urbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm having trouble with the parentheses after the def thing().  IDLE
> says that there is something wrong with it.  If I type something
> between them, it says that there is something wrong with the quotation
> marks.  If I just leave it like (), then it says that something is
> wrong with what is after the parentheses.  Unless my code is supposed
> to go between the parentheses.  I'll try that.

Between the parentheses should go the variables you use (if any) when
calling the function. For example:

def sayhello():
    print "Hello"

You don't have any parameters here, so there's nothing between the
brackets

def say(word):
    print word

Now there is one parameter, namely word.

def sayboth(word1,word2):
    print word1
    print word2

Here there are two parameters, word1 and word2.

The number of parameters should be the same as the number of
parameters you use when calling the function:

sayhello()
say("One text")
sayboth("One text","Another text")

There is a much used method to make some of the parameters optional,
but we'll not go into that.

To know what is going wrong with your program, I would have to see the
program (or a simplified version of it that still goes wrong) and
preferably also the exact error message you are getting.


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