Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:not': 0.03; 'syntax': 0.04; 'string.': 0.05; 'found,': 0.07; 'python3': 0.07; 'subject:Error': 0.07; 'def': 0.12; "'');": 0.16; 'py_compile': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; 'variable': 0.18; 'module': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'config': 0.24; 'errors.': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'function': 0.29; 'received:10.0.0': 0.31; 'file:': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'checking': 0.33; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'skip:j 20': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'received:10.0': 0.36; 'error.': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'skip:. 10': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'commands': 0.60; 'skip:* 10': 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'here': 0.66; 'invalid': 0.68; 'skip:m 50': 0.68; 'containing': 0.69; 'default': 0.69 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jjp2EEHFJyg2zIGpH9x8IYR6xJPhtSsLA25BKqeHuVc=; b=K0haChB4od2rfpqKU1c+t9AYs5f4eQDmucwAM/n5JpCVsqVe+12qq2sGOHq/Vdeayf yWrfUq6rT+bVxXGJfRCitE1itT50Xb9KGIToHF+h5J9TABtsssDC3LSM/OECyw7FiTzZ y3K1d7eX9WCQ7CElFlNGBLIlOL/B0fKJqedu60g3dBNAdcBaKtIhxynEBWzCgKsejkk1 4ekl/KCVqmFFnJTB1SJe+6pE3NcJr/TGFuBhDpM7KXiqmFKr4YOPD3mCa2d82u/p5ETw aSeSjK0Dnpsd24o9MJvbBe4AJD7lyUgosB1fuRwVrzUUd8CTdLq1tZi8DWHygf4v6pos 2X3g== X-Received: by 10.50.11.46 with SMTP id n14mr5556773igb.15.1376187566090; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:19:23 -0400 From: Devyn Collier Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Python Mailing List Subject: Am I not seeing the Error? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1376187574 news.xs4all.nl 15929 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:52343 I am checking my 1292-line script for syntax errors. I ran the following commands in a terminal to check for errors, but I do not see the error. collier@Nacho-Laptop:/media/collier/AI/Pysh$ python3 -m py_compile ./beta_engine File "./beta_engine", line 344 JOB_WRITEURGFILES = multiprocessing.Process(write2file('./mem/ENGINE_PID', ENGINEPID); write2file(SENTEMPPATH, ''); write2file(INPUTMEM, '')); JOB_WRITEURGFILES.start() ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax collier@Nacho-Laptop:/media/collier/AI/Pysh$ pylint ./beta_engine No config file found, using default configuration ************* Module beta_engine E:344,0: invalid syntax Here is line 344: JOB_WRITEURGFILES = multiprocessing.Process(write2file('./mem/ENGINE_PID', ENGINEPID); write2file(SENTEMPPATH, ''); write2file(INPUTMEM, '')); JOB_WRITEURGFILES.start() The ENGINEPID is a variable containing a string. My write2file function is def write2file(openfile, WRITE): with open(openfile, 'rw') as file: file.write(WRITE) Mahalo, DevynCJohnson@Gmail.com