On 8/12/13 8:33 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
On 08/10/2013 10:47 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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
Thanks everyone. Unfortunately, I have not found the problem yet. I
use the Geany IDE which has syntax highlighting, but nothing wrong is
seen. None of the suggestions helped. The lines before this one set
variables. The lines further up "appear" fine. I will keep looking. If
I ever figure it out, I will share with all of you.
As Terry Reedy pointed out, you have semicolons separating arguments in
a function call. This is your line of code:
JOB_WRITEURGFILES =
multiprocessing.Process(write2file('./mem/ENGINE_PID', ENGINEPID);
write2file(SENTEMPPATH, ''); write2file(INPUTMEM, ''));
JOB_WRITEURGFILES.start()
Replacing names with shorter ones to see the structure, it's like this:
J = m.P( w('', E); w(S, ''); w(I, '') ); J.s()
You have three semicolons in that line. Two are inside a call, though
I'm not sure that's what you intended. One is separating statements.
You might be a little too attached to your "more readable" style.
Putting things on different lines really does help you see what is going on.
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