[Tutor] Python Help

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On Jan 23, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Grady Trexler <grady905 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Below is my code.  I am using python 2.4 It tells me I have a syntax error.  Please help!  (I think the first twenty lines have what you would be looking for.  After that it just repeats itself.)
> #scenario maker
> #created by: Grady Trexler
> #started on 1/3/13
> #last update: 1/3/13
> 
> def rungame()
> 	guyone = raw_input("Please enter a name:")
> 

[megabyte]


> 		print "%s: EVERYTHING!!!!" % (guytwo)
> 		print "%s pushed passed %s and ran away.  The two never saw eachother again." % (guytwo, guyone)
> rungame()
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In the future, please also show us the error and the traceback so we don't have to read through your whole code looking for lints.


  File "text.py", line 1
    def rungame()
                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

You forgot the colon after the closing ) in the def statement.

-Bill