On 1/3/2017 10:15 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
And that statement tells us you are trying to run from within some
IDE/editor which is trapping Python exceptions and producing a dialog
box for them.
IDLE does this when one runs code from the editor, because it
cannot/should not inject error messages into the editor buffer...
AND it replaces the ^ with red highlighting of the code pointed to. No
information is lost. Apparently, some beginners do not see the
connection between the SyntaxError box and the red highlighting. I
think I should add something to the box. Maybe 'The error was detected
at the point of the red highlighting.'
Instead, save your script (if you haven't yet) as a file
(whatever.py).
Open a command line interpreter/shell.
Navigate (cd ...) to where you saved the file
Type "python whatever.py"
What a nuisance.
Copy and paste the results of the CLI/Shell window.
Or one can hit F5 to run the code or Alt-X to just check the syntax.
A beginner should do this every few lines, and it should be as easy as
possible to check. If one needs to ask about a syntax error, one can
copy the code up and including the highlighted part. Example:
"When I run this code in IDLE
def is_same(target, number:
if
I get a SyntaxError at 'if'."
If the OP had known to do this, the error might have been seen without
posting.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
