On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.452.1376188442.1251.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When you get a syntax error you can't understand, look at the previous >> line of code. Perhaps something there is incomplete; maybe you have >> mismatched parentheses, so this line is considered to be part of the >> same expression. >> >> Next thing to do is split it into more lines. Why is all that in a single >> line? > > Also, try reformatting the code in a tool like emacs or eclipse which > does syntax coloring and auto indenting. Often, if you're missing some > piece of punctuation, it will become obvious when your tool tries to > indent things in some unexpected way. Or suddenly starts coloring all > of your program text as if it were a string literal :-)
Agreed. Though I've had some odd issues with SciTE in that way; I think its Python handling may have bugs in it here and there. But 95% of the time it's helpful. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
