How about you just isolate the first few lines On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ray Holt <mrhol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > try: > #open file stream > file = open(file_name, "w" > except IOError: > print "There was an error writing to", file_name > sys.exit()
Notice anything now? Something missing perhaps. You forgot to close the parenthesis for the open. Python moves on to the next line to look for where you close the call, and sees an except which is illegal inside of a function call. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
