Hi Danielle, and welcome. Others have already replied to your post, and I'm going to reply with pretty much the same answer:
Please help us to help you! We're not mind-readers, we need to see the actual error messages you get, and your actual code, not just a rough paraphrase of it. When Python has an error to report, it will print a traceback like this: py> x = 1 py> y = 1/(1-x) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: division by zero It's important to copy and paste the whole traceback, starting with the first line "Traceback ..." to the end. Tracebacks often contain a lot of useful information to help debugging. (Although not always: one of the frustrations of programming is that sometimes the error messages aren't very useful.) You say: > I am supposed to use operand1=2 and operand2=7 You should be able to use that *exactly* as it is (although putting spaces around the = sign is recommended): py> operand1 = 2 py> operand2 = 7 py> result = operand1 + operand2 py> print(result) 9 > To complete: result= operand1+operand2 etc, but I keep getting invalid > syntax either on the " or operand1. Please help We can't tell what you have mistyped if we don't know what you typed in the first place :-( Regards, Steve On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:50:12PM -0700, Danielle Salaz wrote: > I'm a noob to Python and cannot figure out how to complete one of my > assignments. > > I am supposed to use operand1=2 and operand2=7 > To complete: result= operand1+operand2 etc, but I keep getting invalid syntax > either on the " or operand1. Please help > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
