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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:33:52 +0100
Subject: Re: Am I not seeing the Error?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
<devyncjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


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?

ChrisA