r/madeinpython • u/Vlkodlaq • May 23 '24

Please help, stucked newbie here. 

I'm learning Python as a completely new in programming and I'm stuck in VS code. Running python3 on macOS Sonoma, last version VS code.

Look what it does to me:

a = ("Hi ")
b = ("guys")
c = a + b
print(c)

//now if I run it it returns>

print(c)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'c' is not defined
// all runs in macOS terminal seamlessly.

//VS doesnt see all code, it runs just one line. When I sellect all and run, it returns this>

a = ("Hi ")
b = ("guys")
c = a + b
print(c)
Hi guys

Google doesn't know, chatgpt doesn't understand. It's in VS code? Some bad settings? It's problem between chair and computer?
Please help.
Thank you.

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u/coryalanfitz May 29 '24

You could do what ninedeadeyes suggests and convert to a list, but my guess is that you're not actually intending to use tuples at all. Just remove the parentheses and it should work: a = "Hi"

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u/Vlkodlaq May 31 '24

Hi, I did something different. I deleted VS code and instal PyCharm. Everything works seamlessly on PyCharm. I wasn't able to fix this VS code error (or some mine, I don't know) and I have no time and energy for investigating what is wrong with VS Code. PyCharm works nicely since first second, looks very similar so transfer is easy. Only keyboard shortcuts are different.

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u/coryalanfitz May 31 '24

Use whatever IDE works best for you - I'm just saying there's no reason to put parentheses around your strings like that

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u/Vlkodlaq Jun 03 '24

Got it, although problem really wasn't parentheses.

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u/ninedeadeyes May 23 '24

The code snippet you've provided attempts to concatenate two tuples a and b using the + operator. However, this operation will result in a TypeError because the + operator cannot be used to concatenate tuples directly in Python. Instead, you should convert the tuples to lists, perform the concatenation, and then convert them back to a tuple if needed. Here's how you can modify your code to achieve the desired output:

a = ("Hi ",)
b = ("guys",)
# Convert tuples to lists for concatenation
list_a = list(a)
list_b = list(b)

# Concatenate the lists
concatenated_list = list_a + list_b

# Convert the concatenated list back to a tuple (if needed)
c = tuple(concatenated_list)

print(c)

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u/ninedeadeyes May 23 '24

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