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MrGraham · 02-03-2009, 01:00 PM

I'm running through the Python intro for fun as well. My programming experience is limited to HTML, Coldfusion, PHP, and SQL, so this question might be stupid for people who have worked with C.

Question - the following lines are from one of the first pages of the tutorial.

Code:

>>> word = 'Help' + 'A'
>>> word
'HelpA'
>>> '<' + word*5 + '>'
''

Why does the last line have to have the " + "'s around word*5 to work?

Code:

>>> word*5
'HelpAHelpAHelpAHelpAHelpA'
>>> ''
''
>>> '<'word*5'>'
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1)

... even with the code tag it's still omitting some.

An Informal Introduction to Python — Python v3.1a0 documentation

That's the page, it's like halfway down, section on concatenates.

Don't understand why '<' + word*5 + '>' works but '<'word*5'>' does not.

02-03-2009, 01:00 PM	#12 (permalink)
MrGraham The Next Orange Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,322 +11 Internets	I'm running through the Python intro for fun as well. My programming experience is limited to HTML, Coldfusion, PHP, and SQL, so this question might be stupid for people who have worked with C. Question - the following lines are from one of the first pages of the tutorial. Code: >>> word = 'Help' + 'A' >>> word 'HelpA' >>> '<' + word5 + '>' '' Why does the last line have to have the " + "'s around word5 to work? Code: >>> word5 'HelpAHelpAHelpAHelpAHelpA' >>> '' '' >>> '<'word5'>' SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1) ... even with the code tag it's still omitting some. An Informal Introduction to Python — Python v3.1a0 documentation That's the page, it's like halfway down, section on concatenates. Don't understand why '<' + word5 + '>' works but '<'word5'>' does not. Last edited by MrGraham; 02-03-2009 at 01:19 PM..