Re: Tutor Digest, Vol 82, Issue 122

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syntax error that i cant spot!

Hi,
Please help just starting out and have come up with the following code 
to create a simple guessing game.

on line 30 print good job etc i get a syntax error! sure it's simple but 
i've looked for ages and cant spot it!

Regards
Pete

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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM, pete <psmouty <at> live.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Please help just starting out and have come up with the following code to
> create a simple guessing game.
>
> on line 30 print good job etc i get a syntax error! sure it's simple but
> i've looked for ages and cant spot it!
>
> Regards
> Pete

 print 'Good job, ' + myName + "! You guessed the number in " +
guessesTaken + ' guesses!'

you forgot to place a plus in between myName and "! You guessed the number in ".
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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

Am 01.01.2011 18:02, schrieb pete:
> Hi,
> Please help just starting out and have come up with the following code
> to create a simple guessing game.
>
> on line 30 print good job etc i get a syntax error! sure it's simple but
> i've looked for ages and cant spot it!
There's a + missing after myName

Also, I would use the same type of quotation marks. Not mixing '' and "".

>
> Regards
> Pete
>
>
>
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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

You also can place:

else:
    print " this is not a number"

And:

    if guess == number:
        break

if guess == number:
    guessesTaken = str(guessesTaken)
    print 'Good job, ' + myName + "! You guessed the number in " +
guessesTaken + ' guesses!'

which could be combined.

 if guess == number:
        guessesTaken = str(guessesTaken)
        print 'Good job, ' + myName + "! You guessed the number in " +
guessesTaken + ' guesses!'
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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

I am caught off guard but what is the purpose of the plus sign?  I don't 
recall seeing it used like that.

Ken

On 01/01/2011 12:11 PM, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote:
> You missed a "+" after myName on line 30.
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:32 PM, pete <psmouty <at> live.com 
> <mailto:psmouty <at> live.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     Please help just starting out and have come up with the following
>     code to create a simple guessing game.
>
>     on line 30 print good job etc i get a syntax error! sure it's
>     simple but i've looked for ages and cant spot it!
>
>     Regards
>     Pete
>
>     _
>
>
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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

On 01/01/2011 02:28 PM, Ken Green wrote:
> I am caught off guard but what is the purpose of the plus sign? I don't
> recall seeing it used like that.
>
> Ken
>
> On 01/01/2011 12:11 PM, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote:
>> You missed a "+" after myName on line 30.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:32 PM, pete <psmouty <at> live.com
>> <mailto:psmouty <at> live.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Please help just starting out and have come up with the following
>> code to create a simple guessing game.
>>
>> on line 30 print good job etc i get a syntax error! sure it's
>> simple but i've looked for ages and cant spot it!
>>
>> Regards
>> Pete
>>
>> _
>>
>>
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The + operator in this case concatenates, or joins, two strings.
"Hello, " + "World" == "Hello, World"
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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

On 1/1/2011 2:28 PM, Ken Green wrote:
> I am caught off guard but what is the purpose of the plus sign?  I 
> don't recall seeing it used like that.

I just tried to look that up in the Python Manuals. No success! Where is 
it hiding?

 >>> a = 'a'
 >>> b = 'b'
 >>> c = a + b
 >>> print c
ab

Now you can recall seeing it.

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Bob Gailer
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Re: syntax error that i cant spot!

On 1/1/2011 2:28 PM, Ken Green wrote:
> I am caught off guard but what is the purpose of the plus sign?  I
> don't recall seeing it used like that.

I just tried to look that up in the Python Manuals. No success! Where is 
it hiding?

*** OOPS just found it in section 6.6 Sequence Types
s + t the concatenation of s and t

>>> a = 'a'
>>> b = 'b'
>>> c = a + b
>>> print c
ab

Now you can recall seeing it.

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Bob Gailer
919-636-4239
Chapel Hill NC

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