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   Message 68 of 96   
   Wilfred van Velzen to Charles Pierson   
   Re: Error message   
   06 Feb 21 12:13:48   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 601e7a09   
   REPLY: 1:106/127 f743b3e8   
   Hi Charles,   
      
   On 2021-02-05 21:57:12, you wrote to me:   
      
    Wv>>  CP> python scraping.py   
    Wv>>  CP> File "scraping.py", line 5   
    Wv>>  CP>   def   
    Wv>>  CP> hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):   
    Wv>>  CP>                                        ^   
    Wv>>  CP>  SyntaxError: invalid   
    Wv>>  CP> syntax   
    Wv>>   
    Wv>>   
    Wv>>   
    Wv>>  CP> The code is:   
    Wv>>   
    Wv>>  CP> # scraping function   
    Wv>>  CP> def hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):   
    Wv>>   
    Wv>> There should be a variable there between the (), not a constant in   
    Wv>> this function definition.   
      
    CP> Ah, so my source is wrong.   
      
   I don't know your source, so I can't comment on that. ;-)   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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