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   Hi Charles,   
      
   On 2021-02-05 14:35:27, you wrote to All:   
      
    CP> I'm trying to make an RSS scraper to pull articles from RSS feeds and   
    CP> export them to text files, to be used either in my  BBS bulletins or   
    CP> message areas   
      
    CP> I found a web page that supposedly does exactly this, however using the   
    CP> code and testing I get the Folliwing error:   
      
      
    CP> python scraping.py   
    CP> File "scraping.py", line 5   
    CP>   def   
    CP> hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):   
      
    CP>                                        ^   
    CP>  SyntaxError: invalid   
    CP> syntax   
      
      
      
    CP> The code is:   
      
    CP> # scraping function   
    CP> def hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):   
      
   There should be a variable there between the (), not a constant in this   
   function definition.   
      
    CP>     try:   
    CP>         r = requests.get()   
      
   Is 'requests' defined of set somewhere? I don't see it.   
      
    CP>         return print('The scraping job succeeded: ', r.status_code)   
    CP>     except Exception as e:   
    CP>         print('The scraping job failed. See exception: ')   
    CP>         print(e)print('Starting scraping')   
      
    CP> hackernews_rss()   
      
   Here where you call it you can give the constant to the function, like:   
      
   hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss')   
      
    CP> print('Finished scraping')   
      
      
    CP> Any idea what I flubbed?   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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