[Tutor] Syntax error with if statement

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 20:08:25 CEST 2011


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I haven't been programming for a while and today I am working on something
> and have encountered an error I cannot figure out.
>
> Here is my code:
>
>          thisFile = column[6]
>          if thisFile == "/Images/My%20Face.JPG"
>               CallCount += 1
>               print CallCount
>
> And here is the error message:
>
> ray at RaysComputer:~$ python /home/ray/EmailCount/**CountEmails.py
>  File "/home/ray/EmailCount/**CountEmails.py", line 41
>    if thisFile == "/Images/My%20Face.JPG"
>                                                                      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> Any help you can be will be much appreciated.
>

There has to be a : at the end of an if statement, or more generally, any
statement that is to be followed by an indented block.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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