Eric Walker wrote: > newbie here, > Welcome > I just tried playing around with the dec function and > I get errors. Please always post the traceback (error message), and the code you are using. > Correct me if I am wrong. After getting > the input, What input is dec() expecting? As I read it the input is intended to be a string of numbers separated by whitespace. Something like 33 34 35 (which should decode to "abc"). > the string.split will parse the string > across whitespace chars so in other words you get a > list of each word entered. True > Then when it does the > eval(x) part it dies. I tries to evaluate the word to > be an existing variable or something. Am I missing > something here. > The reference says: "eval(expression, ...)* *The expression argument is parsed and evaluated as a Python expression.
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