Help!!! New to Python and getting an error I can't figure out

Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Mon Nov 20 14:31:09 EST 2006


> I'm learning python and from a book I tried this program: (all the
> indentation is there just doen't appear in this EMail)
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>  (g = dirGrep("c:\\winnt"))
> 
> When I try to run the program - python grep.py - I get the following error:
> 
> C:\> python grep.py
>   File "grep.py", line 28
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>                                              ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I suspect it has to do with the funky (useless? unneeded? 
worthless? broken? borked? crack-smokin'?) parens around the 
non-statement in the subsequent (#29) line.

The error is a little misleading, as there's nothing wrong with 
line #28 per-se, but rather the following line.

-tkc






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