Re: Pythons indentation.

Mike Tibbs (tibbs@dopey.si.com)
Sun, 10 Apr 94 09:08 EDT

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ka0p% ./python
Python 1.0.1 (Apr 9 1994)
Copyright 1991-1994 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> def fib(n):
... a, b = 0, 1
... while b <= n:
... print b,
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
ka0p%
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whereas the following works:

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ka0p% ./python
Python 1.0.1 (Apr 9 1994)
Copyright 1991-1994 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> def fib(n):
... a, b = 0, 1
... while b <= n:
... print b,
... a, b = b, a+b
...
>>> fib(2000)
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597
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I'm also running on SPARC10, SunOS 4.1.3.

Python 1.0.1 (Mar 28 1994)
Copyright 1991-1994 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> def fib(n):
... a, b = 0, 1
... while b <= n:
... print b,
File "<stdin>", line 4
print b,
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

No seg fault here!

Which compiler did you use to build Python. Maybe your compiler is not up
to date. I used gcc-2.5.7.

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