Why am I getting an invalid systax on the first except in the following code. It was copid from the python tutorial for beginners. Thanks, Ray import sys try: #open file stream file = open(file_name, "w" except IOError: print "There was an error writing to", file_name sys.exit() print "Enter '", file_finish, print "' When finished" while file_text != file_finish: file_text = raw_input("Enter text: ") if file_text == file_finish: # close the file file.close break file.write(file_text) file.write("\n") file.close() file_name = raw_input("Enter filename: ") if len(file_name) == 0: print "Next time please enter something" sys.exit() try: file = open(file_name, "r") except IOError: print "There was an eror reading file" sys.exit file_text = file.read() file.close print file_text
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