Invalid syntax error

Günther Dietrich gd.usenet at spamfence.net
Sat Mar 10 08:17:06 EST 2012


In article 
<46758542-1bd6-43fe-8e80-bcf14b7d88d8 at pi6g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
 sl33k <ahsanbagwan at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm trying project euler problem 3 and I've hit the wall with this
>error. What could be the problem here?
>
> l=[]
>>>> num=600851475143
>>>> i=1
>>>> while i<=num:
>...     if num%i==0:
>...         l.append(i)
>...     i+=1
>... print max(l)
>  File "<stdin>", line 5
>    print max(l)
>        ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax

You have to insert an empty line after the end of the while loop (before 
the print command), so that the interpreter can run and finish the loop 
before it is to print the result.



Best regards,

Günther



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