Question

Hi I really need help, I'm on the handout for Lecture 2 (i know should be easy) but I keep getting syntax errors for things that i really don't think I should and it's making it impossible to follow along. here's what it says (y is highlighted for error) >>> x = 15\
y = 5\

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I also seem to be getting syntax errors on semicolons even though I'm using 2.5 not 3.

Answer 1

If you're going to use the \ sign to move to another line, the next line needs to be part of the old statement, not an entirely new statement.

For example, something like this would work:

>>> x = \
15

It would assign 15 to x. You'd never actually want to break it up that way, but it works.

What you actually want to do is this:

>>> x = 15
>>> y = 5

Then, the values are assigned to the variables.