Op Monday 4 May 2015 14:07 CEST schreef Chris Angelico: > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: >> While copying pasting code to test, the following works: [chomp] >> But first I used: with NamedTemporaryFile(mode = 'w', prefix = file >> + '_', dir = filepath, delete = False) as tf: tempfile = tf.name >> with open(real_file, 'r') as f: for line in islice(f, 1, None): >> tf.write(line) rename(tempfile, real_file) >> >> But that gave: >> File "<stdin>", line 6 >> rename(tempfile, real_file) >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> Why? > > To clarify: When you say "to test", you mean the interactive > interpreter, right?
Yes, that is what I mend. Should have been clearer. > If so, you need to end blocks of text with blank > lines (and not have any blank lines in between). It's because the > parser has to know when to run stuff; when you run a script, it > parses the whole thing and then runs it, but interactively, it has > to work piece-meal. OK, thanks: I understand it now. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
