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Python

Posted by Cheri Castro
Cheri Castro
226 Points

This still isn't working, for my blood drive program. Any ideas? It gives me a syntax error.

the writeToFile function
def writeToFile(averagePints, pints):
   outFile = open('blood.txt', 'a')
   print outFile,('Pints Each Hour')
   counter = 0
   while counter < 7:
          outFile.write(str(pints[counter]) + '\n')
          counter = counter + 1

   outFile.write('Average Pints')
   outFile.write(str(averagePints) + '\n\n')
   outFile.close()

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,416 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,416 Points

The syntax error is coming from the line: print outFile,('Pints Each Hour') All arguments to print need to be inside the parentheses, and if you are specifying a file it needs to be with the keyword argument file=, otherwise it will be considered something to print out to the console.

Cheri Castro
Cheri Castro
226 Points
Cheri Castro
Cheri Castro
226 Points

Well, that seems to make sense but other than the = sign. The instructions state that it is supposed to be typed like so:

print >> outFile, 'Pints Each Hour'

I tried that, it results in an error, so I tried all of these, one by one:

print >> outFile, "Pints Each Hour"
print >> outFile, ('Pints Each Hour')
print >> outFile, ("Pints Each Hour")
print outFile, 'Pints Each Hour'
print outFile, "Pints Each Hour"
print outFile, ('Pints Each Hour')
print outFile, ("Pints Each Hour")
print outFIle., 'Pints Each Hour'

I'm sure I tried other things as well but none have worked. If the instructions stated that it was supposed to be typed as the initial statement at the top, then do you know why it won't work?