[Tutor] invalid syntax? huh!?!

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Friday 18 October 2002 10:33, Ray Leggett wrote:
> Ok, I'm writing a script in Python 2.2 on windows that basically scans
> another python module and lists all the lines beginning with "class" an=
d
> "def" in them.  Basically, it will print out a reference to the module.
>
> Well, i wrote the thing in maybe 20 minutes tops.  Ran it with another
> python module as an argument, and got the following:
>
> File "C:\scripts\modscan.py", line 16
>   for line in fp.readlines()
>   ^
> SyntaxError:  invalid syntax
>
> Now, this is really puzzling to me.  As far as I can tell, the for loop=
 I
> used is correct in any number of languages, including python.  Here is =
the
> script: (formatting a little mangled by outlook)

will assume the formatting is correct then

>
> def ScanModule(ModuleToScan):
>  fp =3D open(ModuleToScan)
>   for line in fp.readlines()

there is no ':' on the end of this line.  A for loop's beginning statemen=
t=20
must end with a colon just like the if lines do.

>    if ScanClass.search(line):
>     print line
>    else

ditto for 'else' statements.