Hello all,
I'm working my way through the Michael Dawson book "Python Programming for the
Absolute Beginner" and I've come across an invalid syntax error on 2 occassoins
now. For the life of me I can't see what's wrong. I've checked and re-checked
I've typed in the code from the book correctly, I've ran the lines in IDLE and
one works but the other doesn't. The first program is:
#Pizza Slicer
#Demonstrates string slicing
word = "pizza"
print(
"""
Slicing 'Cheat Sheet'
0 1 2 3 4 5
+---+---+---+---+---+
| P | i | z | z | a |
+---+---+---+---+---+
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1
"""
)
print("Enter the beginning and ending index for your slice of 'pizza'.")
print("Press the enter key at 'Start' to exit.")
start = None
while start != "":
start = (input("\nStart: "))
if start:
start = int(start)
finish = (int(input("Finish: "))
print("word[", start, ":", finish, "] is", end=" ")
print(word[start:finish])
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
When I run this through the terminal in linux using python3 I get the following:
File "pizza_slicer.py", line 32
print("word[", start, ":", finish, "] is", end=" ")
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
If I type the while loop into IDLE it doesn't produce the error but it doesn't
return anything full stop.
Now I get teh same sytax error for another program, the lines in question are
below (I can include all the code if required):
#display one item through an index
index = (int(input("\nEnter the index number for an item in inventory: "))
print("At index", index, "is", inventory[index])
Once again, if Ii run this through the terminal I get the following:
File "hero's_inventory2.py", line 26
print("At index", index, "is", inventory[index])
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Is this something simple such as a difference with python version syntax? I
tried running with version 3.2.3 and the native version (2.7.3) of python and
got the same error message at the same point so I didn't think it could be this.
I know it's probably something simple I just can't see it. Can anyone help? If
you need any more info just let me know.
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