Beginner string formatting question

[evandempsey]

Hi all,

I am a beginning Python programmer working my way through Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming. One of the exercises is to write a program that converts a numerical input, e.g. 654, into text.

When I try to run this I get a syntax error on line 29.

numString = str(letterList[0])

For the life of me, I can't see what could be wrong with this. I have run equivalent commands in the interactive interpreter and everything worked fine. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me.

Thanks,

Evan


(Here is the program:)

#!/usr/bin/env python

"Generates a textual representation of a numerical input."

numberList = 		['zero', 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 
			'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine']

numberListTeens = 	['ten', 'eleven', 'twelve', 'thirteen', 
			'fourteen', 'fifteen', 'sixteen', 'seventeen',
			'eighteen', 'nineteen', 'twenty']
numberListTens = 	['zero', 'ten', 'twenty', 'thirty', 'fourty',
			'fifty', 'sixty', 'seventy', 'eighty', 
			'ninety', 'one-hundred']
numberListHundreds =	['zero', 'one-hundred-and', 'two-hundred-and', 
			'three-hundred-and', 'four-hundred-and',
			'five-hundred-and', 'six-hundred-and'
			'seven-hundred-and', 'eight-hundred-and'
			'nine-hundred-and']			

inputList = []
letterList = []

def NumberPrinterProperUsage(numString):
	for char in numString:
		inputList.append(int(char))

	if len(inputList) == 1:
		letterList.append(numberList(inputList[0])
		numString = str(letterList[0])
		print numString

	elif len(inputList) == 2:
		if inputList[0] = 1:
			letterList.append(numberListTeens(inputList[1])
			numString = str(letterList[0])
			print numString

		else:
			letterList.append(numberListTens(inputList[0])
			letterList.append(numberList(inputList[1])
			numString = '-'.join(letterList)
			print numString
	
	elif len(inputList) == 3:
		letterList.append(numberListHundreds(inputList[0])
		letterList.append(numberListTens(inputList[1])
		letterList.append(numberList(inputList[2])
		numString = '-'.join(letterList)
		print numString
		
	else:
		print "Please enter a number between 0 and 999. Exiting..."

def Menu():
	stringInput = raw_input("Please enter a number. ")
	NumberPrinterProperUsage(stringInput)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	Menu()

[evandempsey]

This is resolved. I fixed the parentheses. Don't bother replying. Thanks.