subtraction is giving me a syntax error

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:09:29 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> Delete the character between "y_diff" and "H" and replace it with a
>> plain ASCII subtraction sign.
> 
> I think somebody needs to stop editing his code with MS Word and start
> using a programming editor. ;)


I've had this error myself, and I've never used Word to edit code. It can 
happen if you copy code from a website that "helpfully" converts hyphens 
to en-dashes, spaces to non-breaking spaces, or inserts ctrl-Z characters 
into strings, etc. They're a devil to debug.


-- 
Steven