"Sheldon" wrote: > I am new here but I am pretty good at python programming but I am not > exert. I have been away from programming for about a year and now I am > programming in python again in combination with IDL. > I came across a error that puzzles me and I need some help. It is > pretty simple error but I suspect that the problem is not what is > python says it is. > While parsing a module my python reported a synthax error that, to me, > seemed perfectly ok: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/local_disk/opt/MSG_PostProc/scr/sheldon_cmsaf_remap.py", line 2, in ? > from msgpp_config import * > File "/local_disk/opt/MSG_PostProc/cfg/msgpp_config.py", line 73 > from smhi_safnwc_legends import * > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Now I know that there is no synthax error with that line of code. I > have also checked for indentations errors. I think that the error is > something else. Can anyone point me in the right direction? What > triggers such erroneous errors in Python?
Python 2.4.1 contained a bug that could result in spurious syntax errors for relatively large files that uses PEP 263-style coding directives [1]. what Python version are you using ? </F> 1) http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list