Re: [Tutor] line continuation characters

2011-06-20 Thread Alan Gauld
"Lisi" wrote It is not the error message that is unclear, it was the state of my knowledge. I did not know that \ was a line continuation character, I sympathise. I had been programming for about 5 years before I came across line continuation characters. For me it was while reviewing someon

Re: [Tutor] line continuation characters

2011-06-20 Thread Lisi
On Monday 20 June 2011 00:03:47 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > I am having problems with line continuation characters. Error message: > > > > SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character > > Then delete it ;) > > Seriously. You have your editor open, right? Go to t

Re: [Tutor] line continuation characters

2011-06-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Lisi wrote: I am having problems with line continuation characters. Error message: SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character Then delete it ;) Seriously. You have your editor open, right? Go to the line where the error is reported. It will look something like this:

Re: [Tutor] line continuation characters

2011-06-19 Thread Válas Péter
2011/6/19 Lisi > I am having problems with line continuation characters. Error message: > > SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character > You should write here the line where the problem is. Likely that you have written something after \. If you place a \ at the end of l

[Tutor] line continuation characters

2011-06-19 Thread Lisi
I am having problems with line continuation characters. Error message: SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character I have succeeded in moving the position of the complaint, but am currently well and truly stuck. I have read up about it and now (I hope!) know what to do