Brett Wilkins wrote:
Given that board is a function then I believe that it is likely you're
either (a) doing something wrong beforehand, or (b) if board is a
function that generates the Tic Tac Toe board, then the syntax you more
likely need is board()[number] , but I can't be completely certain.
when I say doing something wrong beforehand, I'm thinking you might be
accidentally giving the funtion a new name, instead of assigning it's
return value to a variable,
like so:
newname = functionname //see here, no brackets on the end of the
function, this basically tells python that newname is also functionname.
variable = functionReturningValue() //and here, the function's return
value is obviously being assigned to the variable
Disclaimer: My naming scheme sucks, I know this :)
Cheers
--Brett
John Fouhy wrote:
2009/3/9 WM. <wfergus...@socal.rr.com>:
File "C:\Python26\TicTacToeD.py", line 68, in DisplayBoard
print "\n\t", board[1], "|", board[2], "|", board[3]
TypeError: 'function' object is unsubscriptable
I am fooling around with Dawson's "...for the Absolute Beginner". The
tic-tac-toe program will not run for me. I'm guessing a typi
somewhere, but
cannot find it.
"subscript" means "a thing in square brackets after a name". You've
got three subscripts in that line: board[1], board[2], and board[3].
The error means that you're trying to use square brackets after
something that doesn't support them. It's telling you that 'board' is
a function (as opposed to a list or a dict, for example) and functions
don't support [].
Possibly you're meant to call board:
print "\n\t", board(1), "|", board(2), "|", board(3)
Or, alternatively, you may have assigned to it by mistake somewhere.
Thank you for your remarks. Too bad they fell into my acres of ignorance.
One thing is certain, Dawson used brackets [] not parens (). When I
spoke of typi (plural of typo) I meant ; for : or \ for /, not line
after line of error.
My only alternative now seems to be 'get out the old curry comb' and go
letter by letter, between the monitor and the page. Headache time.
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