Bryan Fodness wrote: > it doesn't fix the problem, now it says there is a syntax error on the > equal sign.
Please, post your code and the exact error message and traceback! Don't make us guess what you are doing! My guess is you forgot the closing ) but I have no way to know for sure. Kent > > On 10/21/07, *Alan Gauld* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > "Bryan Fodness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote in > > > d, fs1, fs2, fs3, fs4, fs5, fs6, fs7, fs8, fs9, fs10, > > fs11, fs12, fs13, fs14, fs15, fs16, fs17, fs18, fs19, > > fs20, fs21, fs22, fs23, fs24, fs25, fs26, fs27, fs28, > > fs29, fs30, fs31, fs32, fs33, fs34, fs35, fs36, fs37, > > fs38, fs39, fs40 = line.split() > > Because your tuple spans multiple lines I think you > will need to put parens round it. > > >>> a,b,c,d > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<input>", line 1, in ? > NameError: name 'a' is not defined > >>> (a,b,c,d > ... > > So starting with a paren tells Python to ignore the newline. > Without it it gets confused about what you want to do. > > HTH, > > -- > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor