Sean Hammond wrote:
>
> Anyone understand this?
>
> Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 21:51:02)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> def markdown_perl(input):
> ... """Send 'input' (string) to the markdown perl script, and return
> the
> ... output from markdown (string).
> ...
> ... input: a string of markdown-formatted text, including \n's at
> the end
> ... of lines, that will be sent to the markdown process.
> ...
> ... returns: a string of valid XHTML from markdown
> ... """
> ... import tempfile
> ... import commands
> ... file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
> ... file.write(input)
> ... file.flush()
> ... return commands.getoutput('./markdown.pl '+file.name)
> File "<stdin>", line 15
> return commands.getoutput('./markdown.pl '+file.name)
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>>
>
> I don't get it. Syntax seems fine to me, just a normal string
> concatenation.
>
> --
Are you perhaps mixing tabs and spaces?
>>> def f():
... print "hello" # four spaces before 'print'
... return 42 # one tab before 'return'
File "<stdin>", line 3
return 42
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Peter
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