Error help

[Dave Angel]

On 08/02/2012 06:58 AM, danielashiloh at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This error has been bugging me for days. I know it's minor, but it's really getting in the way of my programming. I'm programming a data analysis programme for a psychology experiment which takes pickled data from the experiment and produces averages. For some reason python is insisting there is an indentation error on line 18. I have untabified and retabified and nothing seems to work. Here is the full code:
>
>
> import cPickle, pickle
>
> print 'WELLCOME TO THE LIBET CLOCK EXPERIMENT DATA ANALYSIST'
> file=raw_input('\nPLEASE ENTER THE NAME OF THE FILE YOU WISH TO ANALYSE: ')
> pickle_file=open(file, 'r')
> data=cPickle.load(pickle_file)
> file_name=file-'pck' + 'txt'
> partifipant_info=data'Participant Info']
> first_block_data=data['First block data']
> second_block_data=data['Second block data']
> first_block_estimates=first_block_data['Estimated times']
> first_block_times=first_block_data['Actual times']
> second_block_estimates=second_block_data['Estimated times']
> second_block_times=second_block_data['Actual times']
>
>
> def firstBlockDifferences():
>     print '\nCALCULATING AVERAGE DIFFERENCES FOR BLOCK 1' 
>     count=0
>     first_block_differences=[]
>     total=0
>     while count<len(first_block_estimates):
>         differences=float(first_block_estimates[count])-float(first_block_times[count])
>         if differences >= 180:
>             differences-=360
>         elif differences <=-180:
>             differences+=360
>         total+=differences
>         differences=[differences]
>         first_block_differences+=differences
>         count+=1
>     average_diff_first_block=total/len(first_block_estimates)
>     text_file.write('\nAverage differences for block 1: ', average_diff_first_block)
>
> def secondBlockDifferences():
>     print '\nCALCULATING AVERAGE DIFFERENCES FOR BLOCK 2'
>     count=0
>     second_block_differences=[]
>     total=0
>     while count<len(second_block_estimates):
>         differences=float(second_block_estimates[count])-float(second_block_times[count])
>         if differences >= 180:
>             differences-=360
>         elif differences <=-180:
>             differences+=360
>         total+=differences
>         differences=[differences]
>         second_block_differences+=differences
>         count+=1
>     average_diff_second_block=total/len(second_block_estimates)
>     text_file.write('\nAverage differences for block 2: ', average_diff_second_block)
>
>
> text_file=open(file_name, 'w')
> text_file.write('\nParticipant info: ', participant_info)
> firstBlockDifferences()
> secondBlockDifferences()
>
> I apologise for the lack of annotation and it may be a little inefficient, but I am really only after a solution to the error on line 18.
>
> Thanks.

You didn't include the error message, so how are we supposed to know
which line is #18 ?  if I take your message literally, it's a blank line.

Even better, you could have reduced the code down to a minimum which
still shows the error.

As your code stands now, I get an error on line 10:

 File "daniel.py", line 10
    partifipant_info=data'Participant Info']
                                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It appears you're missing a left bracket.

That line also has a strange spelling for participant, so you'd get an
error later when you tried to use participant_info.   Did you by any
chance retype your program into the message?  If you don't use
copy/paste, it's useless for us to study your code.

Finally, in case it matters, just what version of python did you use,
and on what OS?

-- 

DaveA