Re: minor problem in summary

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 06:20:31PM -0600, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>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.

When I run it on my unstable machine (python v2.3.4), I get:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "dalke.py", line 80, in ?
      test()
    File "dalke.py", line 29, in test
      raise AssertionError("wrong for 0")
  AssertionError: wrong for 0

:^(

>> 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?

I'm pretty sure I added the shebang.

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