Error converting to csv files about pycon-pandas-tutorial

[brandon-rhodes]

It looks like something is damaging that file, by replacing parentheses with angle brackets. Here is what that line really looks like:

return s.decode('ascii', 'replace').replace(u'\ufffd', u'?')

There must be some step where instead of being pulled out of the zip file intact, the copy of the file on your computer is getting altered.

[Milja88]

Thank you so much for replying so quickly. I went back and looked into the code and found that I made an error in reading what the error given stated. The code is not being altered, I just mistook the ( ) signs for < > signs. The code is written correctly in the file. However, I am still getting the same SyntaxError: invalid syntax for the line 217.
Do you know what could be causing the issue?

Thank you!

[brandon-rhodes]

You could be using a very old copy of Python — what version is your Python interpreter, if you type python --version?

[Milja88]

I am using python version 3.4 currently.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Brandon Rhodes [email protected]
wrote:

You could be using a very old copy of Python — what version is your Python
interpreter, if you type python --version?

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[brandon-rhodes]

With Python 3.4 on my system, that file can be imported without any problem:

cd build
python3.4 -c 'import BUILD'

So I am at a bit of a loss to understand why exactly the same file would make Python 3.4 happy on my machine, but unhappy on yours. Here is the checksum of exactly my current version of the file if you want to check whether yours has become damaged somehow:

$ md5sum BUILD.py
b3e2419222288e5745090c1108341e22  BUILD.py

Simply reading the line of code with my eyes, it is perfectly valid Python syntax and Python 3.4 should not have any problems with it — there is no syntax error in the code that I can see.

[brandon-rhodes]

Please feel free to re-open this issue if you are able to double-check the checksum on that file so that we can try to discover the syntax error. I hope that you have gotten it fixed by now and are enjoying the tutorial!