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:
blah blah blah \
Press the End key. Your editor's blinking insertion point or cursor will
go to the end of the line:
blah blah blah \ |
Backspace until the cursor is *immediately* next to the backslash, with
no other characters INCLUDING SPACES after it.
Which editor are you using? If it is kwrite or kate, it has a setting to
control whether spaces are left at the end of lines, e.g. in kwrite:
Settings > Configure Editor > Editing > Remove trailing spaces
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 about it in general,
but at one particular point everywhere seems to be wrong. Is there any way I
can make these wretched continuation characters visible, so that I know where
and what I am up against?
Continuation characters are visible. It is a backslash at the very end
of the line. It must not be followed by *anything* -- no comments, no
spaces, nothing.
>>> x = 23 + \
File "<stdin>", line 1
x = 23 + \
^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
If this error message is not clear, would you like to suggest an
improvement?
--
Steven
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