Question

Mit6.189 Handout 1 optional ex 1.

I am doing the zeller.py (optional question) and i have a problem. Whenever i enter 08 or 09 for the year it says

Desktop/Python/Mechanical Mooc/HomeWork/6.189/Handout 1/zellers.py", line 11, in c = input ("Year of the century e.g. 79 for the year 1979 ") File "", line 1 09 ^ SyntaxError: invalid token what is wrong?

Answer 1

It would appear its an octal (?)

I was using input to get an int. To remedy this i needed to use raw_input to get the result I required.

Answer 2

@jtb1979 can you post a link to your code?

a lot of people use services like these:
https://gist.github.com/
http://pastebin.com/

Answer 3

Here is my code..... http://pastebin.com/9qsYZDvb

I thought I had cracked it but maybe not.

Answer 4

Well after a bit of research I have discovered an answer.

When I enter the dates i need to input them as a string otherwise it will recognize 08 / 09 as an octal which will crash the program. And then before I use them in any calculations i need to convert them into strings.

It seems to work fine.