Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.019 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'syntax': 0.04; 'debug': 0.07; '-------': 0.16; 'octal': 0.16; 'received:74.208.4.195': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'supposed': 0.32; 'equal': 0.35; 'error.': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'invalid': 0.68; 'received:74.208': 0.68 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:43:06 -0400 From: Dave Angel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: shmid = shmget(SHM_KEY, SHM_SIZE, 0o666) - syntax error. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:OZrLaQRotIrB4aLagQhXfmshxtGKEEEbAvPP1qTJkxf AcvTe+AjuB6WijDWwHgcy0glg+nL82gQeyURozvdMP1SdBwBTs Newjq0ERyfHUNk2+uxuYkL1Vt4qshdVzwFbJtb1C0JmsWWL5S+ TaBKo8EQ6zkaK2NEdK91Z0PQPrMilmiXUIOhZ/XdwaEclJJehe 4VxdAI0gNa2fIpchtYfqMt+8bJsWjiq/VbRbzg7f6skqN2+m5r LJK/jzAdiB7w1Uzdvz6npacfSux+ZuSAwDQQO3iN+XQ0Rr+xoZ vi3XDGY8Ih8C66vSQ+HUmasftuYs7Mi8ryPBHs5nqfGMU9n6w= = X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1367336617 news.xs4all.nl 15872 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:46236 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:44547 On 04/30/2013 11:27 AM, tromeo@mdlogix.com wrote: > > Please help me to debug > > ------- > shmid = shmget(SHM_KEY, SHM_SIZE, 0o666) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > 0o666 is indeed a syntax error. What is that value supposed to be? If it's intended to be an int that's equal to octal 666, just use 438 -- DaveA