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"Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Marius2002 - Sep-07-2018

I started to learn programming yesterday and today I wanted to make a function about our grade system. Unfortunatley i don't know why i got "SyntaError: invalid syntax"

This was my code:

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f* 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax, it also underlines "freshman_grades" for some reason.

Appreciate any help I can get!

/Marius

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Axel_Erfurt - Sep-07-2018

you must indent the line after def

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
    return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f* 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
print(freshman_grades)


RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Marius2002 - Sep-07-2018

(Sep-07-2018, 09:13 PM)Axel_Erfurt Wrote: you must indent the line after def

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
          return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f* 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
print(freshman_grades)

Sorry for the bad presentation of my code but i have actually indented my code, I can't get the indention to show up though D:

When i copied your code i still got Invalid Syntax, which is very weird.

Thanks anyways!

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Mekire - Sep-07-2018

No syntax errors there. Are you perhaps mixing tabs and spaces?
Please post a copy of your exact error.

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Marius2002 - Sep-07-2018 

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
	return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f * 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
There you go! It seems to think that freshman_grades is the error for some reason.

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - snippsat - Sep-07-2018

(Sep-07-2018, 09:17 PM)Marius2002 Wrote: Sorry for the bad presentation of my code but i have actually indented my code, I can't get the indention to show up though D:
Look at BBCode.
(Sep-07-2018, 09:17 PM)Marius2002 Wrote: When i copied your code i still got Invalid Syntax, which is very weird.
Do you copy into IDLE, has >>> ?
It's for interactive testing line bye line based.

If copy in whole code has to use New File.
The a new window open,paste or write in code as save with .py extension.
Run -> Run Module(F5).

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Marius2002 - Sep-07-2018

(Sep-07-2018, 09:39 PM)snippsat Wrote:
(Sep-07-2018, 09:17 PM)Marius2002 Wrote: Sorry for the bad presentation of my code but i have actually indented my code, I can't get the indention to show up though D:
Look at BBCode.
(Sep-07-2018, 09:17 PM)Marius2002 Wrote: When i copied your code i still got Invalid Syntax, which is very weird.
Do you copy into IDLE, has >>> ?
It's for interactive testing line bye line based.

If copy in whole code has to use New File.
The a new window open,paste or write in code as save with .py extension.
Run -> Run Module(F5).

Could you rephrase that a little, since I am very new i can't really understand what you mean.

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - snippsat - Sep-07-2018

What do you use to run your code and OS as python works on all platforms Windows,Linux and Mac.
IDLE can often be what people start with.
Here image i used before to explain it.
[Image: Wn7asS.jpg]

RE: "Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder) - Marius2002 - Sep-08-2018

(Sep-07-2018, 10:15 PM)snippsat Wrote: What do you use to run your code and OS as python works on all platforms Windows,Linux and Mac.
IDLE can often be what people start with.
Here image i used before to explain it.
[Image: Wn7asS.jpg]

Thnak you so much! Now it works!