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Marc Winterburn
140 PointsInvalid character in identifier
After purposefully putting in the error of a P, I get a different errror message: invalid character in identifier. With a handy little arrow (or upward pointing chevron) directly below the o in hello. This also happened when I first attempted to run the script along with video 1.
Marc Winterburn
140 PointsHaving trouble with snapshot... Here’s a retyping: 1 print(“Hello, Marc”)
Console: treehouse:~/workspace$ python Hello.py File “Hello.py”, line 1 print(“Hello, Marc”) ^ SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier treehouse:~/workspace$
1 Answer
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsYou are seeing the error because of the use of curly quotes. Are you by chance typing this on your phone? If you change to straight quotes then the script executes as it should.
Marc Winterburn
140 PointsThank you very much Kris. I am using my tablet currently as a start but am looking to get a refurbed Mac air soon. Will look into keyboard settings. Again, many thanks
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsKRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsCan you post a snapshot of your workspace where this error could be repeated?