Help Debugging

[Nekiruhs]

Hey guys. I'm trying to write a practice program that will Get info from the user (Name Age Telephone), then write it to ~/InfoGet. Unfortunately, I keep running into an error with the split function of strings. Anyone wanna help? its in python. The error message is a syntax one.


#!/usr/bin/env python
#NfoGet: Get Info and write to file

#Import statements

from os import system as s
import sys

class person(object):
name = ""
age = ""
tele = ""
def __init__(self):
tempinfo = raw_input("Enter a Full Name, Age and Telephone # separated by commas: "
nfo = tempinfo.split(sep=", ") #Heres where the error is
object.name = nfo[0]
object.age = nfo[1]
object.tele = nfo[2]
While 1:
temp = person()
create(temp)
s('echo ' + temp.name + ' ' + temp.age + '' + temp.tele + ' >> ~/InfoGet')
yesno = raw_input("More info? [Y/n]: "
if yesno is '':
continue
else:
break

[Soybean]

nfo = tempinfo.split(sep=", ") #Heres where the error is

Well, I tried just this line (after setting tempinfo to a valid string, of course), and the error I got was "TypeError: split() takes no keyword arguments."

Ok, well,
sep=", " looks like a keyword argument (I don't know much python, but if anything in that line is a keyword argument, I figure it's that). Apparently, split doesn't take those. According to the python documentation (http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html), split's first argument is sep anyway, so:


nfo = tempinfo.split(", ")
ought to do what you want, without the error. :)

[Nekiruhs]

You see, it works in the interactive session. But not in the actual code...

[Soybean]

Ah... it seems python gives somewhat confusing errors when you leave off closing parentheses. ;)

Note that this still doesn't work, but it's fixed the error you were asking about (and a couple of others). Like I said, I don't know much Python. I'm just good with confusing error messages, because I do a lot of STL programming. :D


#!/usr/bin/env python
#NfoGet: Get Info and write to file

#Import statements

from os import system as s
import sys

class person(object):
name = ""
age = ""
tele = ""
def __init__(self):
tempinfo = raw_input("Enter a Full Name, Age and Telephone # separated by commas: ")
nfo = tempinfo.split(", ")
object.name = nfo[0]
object.age = nfo[1]
object.tele = nfo[2]
while 1:
temp = person()
create(temp)
s('echo ' + temp.name + ' ' + temp.age + '' + temp.tele + ' >> ~/InfoGet')
yesno = raw_input("More info? [Y/n]: ")
if yesno is '':
continue
else:
break

[Nekiruhs]

Wow, thanks. It would have taken me forever to see that, lol. And I call myself a programmer.... Well, heres the finished file if anyone is interested.


#!/usr/bin/env python
#NfoGet: Get Info and write to file

#Import statements
from os import system as bash
import sys
import string

class person(object):
name = ''
age = ''
tele = ''
def __init__(self):
userinput = raw_input("Enter a Full Name, Age and Telephone # separated by commas: ")
info = userinput.split(", ")
person.name = info[0]
person.age = info[1]
person.tele = info[2]
while 1:
temp = person()
bash('echo "' + temp.name + ' ' + '|' + ' ' + temp.age + ' ' + '|' + ' ' + temp.tele + '" >> ~/InfoGet')
yesno = raw_input("More info? [Y/n]: ")
if yesno is '' or yesno is 'y' or yesno is 'Y':
continue
else:
break