try... except SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Apr 4 14:46:15 EDT 2007


Steve Holden wrote:
> oscartheduck wrote:
[...]
>>
> Yes. SyntaxError is raised when the interpreter is compiling the Python 
> into byetcodes ready for execution. This *can* happen at run time, but 
> usually it's when you are importing a module and so it gets 
> transmogrified into an ImportError, though you can trigger it with, for 
> example, eval:
> 
Of course I omitted to notice that input() can also raise SyntaxError 
... sorry about that.

regards
  Steve
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