Am I not seeing the Error?

Devyn Collier Johnson devyncjohnson at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 10:04:46 EDT 2013


On 08/12/2013 09:20 AM, Zachary Ware wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
> <devyncjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/10/2013 10:47 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <mailman.452.1376188442.1251.python-list at python.org>,
>>>>    Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>> Also, try reformatting the code in a tool like emacs or eclipse which
>>>> does syntax coloring and auto indenting.  Often, if you're missing some
>>>> piece of punctuation, it will become obvious when your tool tries to
>>>> indent things in some unexpected way.  Or suddenly starts coloring all
>>>> of your program text as if it were a string literal :-)
>>> Agreed. Though I've had some odd issues with SciTE in that way; I
>>> think its Python handling may have bugs in it here and there. But 95%
>>> of the time it's helpful.
>>>
>>> ChrisA
>>
>> Thanks everyone. Unfortunately, I have not found the problem yet. I use the
>> Geany IDE which has syntax highlighting, but nothing wrong is seen. None of
>> the suggestions helped. The lines before this one set variables. The lines
>> further up "appear" fine. I will keep looking. If I ever figure it out, I
>> will share with all of you.
>>
>> As for the code being one line, my style of coding is very different from
>> others. I try to keep similar or related tasks on one line. Programming like
>> that is called trolling. A programmer that uses trolling is called a troll.
>> A troll can also refer to such a line of code itself. My scripts contain a
>> lot of trolls. It is easier for me to read trolls than "typical" coding
>> styles.
> Obviously not, since you can't find the syntax error.  If you replace
> each semicolon in that line with a newline, the syntax error will be
> immediately obvious.  I'll even give you a hint: it's on the third
> line.
>
Zachary, are you, Ned, and Terry trying to say the syntax should be

job = multiprocessing.Process(func1(), func2())

not

job = multiprocessing.Process(func1(); func2())

DCJ




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