Why do I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject	Why do I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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While copying pasting code to test, the following works:
    from itertools  import islice
    from os         import rename
    from os.path    import expanduser, split
    from tempfile   import NamedTemporaryFile

    real_file = (expanduser('~/Twitter/testing.txt'))
    (filepath,
     file)      = split(real_file)
    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 first I used:
    from itertools  import islice
    from os         import rename
    from os.path    import expanduser, split
    from tempfile   import NamedTemporaryFile

    real_file = (expanduser('~/Twitter/testing.txt'))
    (filepath,
     file)      = split(real_file)
    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?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Why do I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-04 13:31 +0200
  Re: Why do I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 22:07 +1000
    Re: Why do I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-04 15:16 +0200

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