On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Is a semantic error one that Python doesn't see as an error -- no > error is raised; whereas syntax errors aren't errors unless Python > sees them as "Syntax Error"s? > > Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_error Here is a semantic error: total = 0 for x in xrange(1,11): total = x # Sums up x The actual intent was to use += for total. Another example # Sums up numbers 1-10 inclusive total = 0 for x in xrange(1,10): total += x Of course (x)range doesn't include the end index, so in both cases the program would compile and execute, but neither would give the programmers intended result. HTH -Wayne
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