On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:44 AM, WM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to learn PYTHON from scratch using two screens; the tutor and > IDLE. The first two lessons went OK but the third (IF and ELSE IF) just do > not work. When I try ELSE I get >>> without any further indent. When I did > COPY and PASTE I got showered with incomprehensible error messages. I did > this because I wondered if I were screwing up with my keyboarding.
Can you copy / paste the IDLE session to an email? My guess is that you entered an extra line before the else. You should just backspace to remove the indent. > > Is this what you do? Answer about beginners' problems? I just subscribed > to the list; this is my first query. Yes, pretty much. You should send your question to tutor@python.org, though. tutor-owner just goes to the list maintainers, not to the entire list. When you reply, use Reply All so your reply also goes to the list. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
