Re: minor problem in summary

Andrew Dalke <dalke-DxsMES/F/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.qotw.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John J. Trammell:
 > At first, I couldn't get it to run, probably because I was running it
 > without any command-line options.  The error message is:
 >
 >     File "dalke.py", line 10
 >      yield ")" * open_count
 >              ^
 >  SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Ah, that means the Python version was too old and
didn't the relatively new (about 2-3 year) keyword.

 > This tidbit (new to me) from perlrun tells the rest:

 >   If the #! line does not contain the word "perl", the program named
 >   after the #! is executed instead of the Perl interpreter.  This is
 >   slightly bizarre,

Yeah, that is slightly bizarre!

I wonder how it got the right interpreter?  Perhaps you
added a #! line (wasn't in my submission) to something
other than in your path?  Or ran it on a different machine?

					Andrew
					dalke-DxsMES/F/[email protected]
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