While it makes sense here to have answers that show problems caused by other kinds of valid syntax, this is an example where the version of Python used causes the syntax not to be valid. …

Nov 23, 2013 · Python has interesting syntax rules in that it actually counts white space as meaningful when parsing the program. What I mean is that having extra space, newlines, or …

Oct 5, 2017 · There are two things wrong here. First, You need parenthesis to enclose the errors: except (ValueError,IOError) as err:

Oct 26, 2021 · In my case this happened: I was using python 3.8 in my virtual environment but in my dockerized project I was using python:3.8-slim so docker was not able to compile it …

Jun 22, 2015 · I am developing a script in python and while I am trying to compile it from the terminator/terminal i always get this error, but I cannot understand where is the syntax error? …

Dec 4, 2017 · I've just installed python 3.6 which comes with pip However, in Windows command prompt, when I do: 'pip install bs4' it returns 'SyntaxError: invalid syntax' under the install word. …

In my system variables, I have specified python to be C:\Python27 (I have other versions of Python installed on my computer as well). I thought this should be enough to run python …

I think this comment was helpful because it shows that people who commonly program in Python run into this simple indentation problem.

Had the same issue while using Python 2.7 and 3.x parallel although 3.x is set as default. Because my PyInstaller from Python 3.x was removed (don't know why) the other one used. …

Jan 11, 2013 · Invalid syntax simply means that the code you have written cannot be interpreted as valid instructions for python. "Syntax" refers to the rules and structures of a language, …