python27 - this doesn't work:

[Temmu]

greets!
help in resolving this is appreciated. no, it is not homework. i'm a bit old for that.
thanks!

this file is tryme3.py

def three_lines():
    print
    print
    print

def nine_lines():
    three_lines()
    three_lines()
    three_lines()

print "line 1"    
nine_lines()
print "line 10"

the output is:

>>> tryme3a.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'tryme3a' is not defined

same output with tryme3a w/o the .py

 

[Will]

There error message you've described is related to something that isn't in the code you've provided. For the error message, in line 1 you've made a call to tryme3a, but Python doesn't know what that means. You're missing a function definition or something similar - probably just a syntax error somewhere.

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For the actual code above, I get the following error message:

Syntax Error:

Print is a function - it needs () after it. More info is here.

def three_lines():
    print()
    print()
    print()

def nine_lines():
    three_lines()
    three_lines()
    three_lines()

print("line 1")    
nine_lines()
print("line 10")

The above code outputs:

Read More:

line 1









line 10

You could also change the three_lines() function to:

def three_lines():
    print("\n\n\n")
def nine_lines():
    etc...