String concatenation

[Erik Max Francis]

"Leif B. Kristensen" wrote:

> that looks a lot more like the examples in "Dive Into Python" which
> I'm
> reading at the moment. But the snake won't swallow:
> 
>     tmp = [x for x in res if x and x[0] != '-']
>     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> I wonder what it's really trying to tell me?

Probably you included the initial spaces, which is a no-no:

>>> a = 1
>>>    b = 2
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    b = 2
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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