Why invalid syntax (<string>, line 24)?

Question

Super new to Python and I just can't figure out what is causing the error message in my code...

It says '[pylint] E0001:invalid syntax (<string>, line 24)'.

Could anyone maybe explain what I'm missing here?

Much thanks!

#########################################
# Draws a mario-style right-side-aligned half pyramid 
# of the requested height.
# Restriction: 0 < height < 23
##########################################

while True:
    height = int(input("Height: "))
    if height > 0 and height < 23:
        break
    elif height == 0:
        print()
        print()
        print()
        print("I have drawn a pyramid with a height of 0!")
        print("Isn't it pretty!")
        exit(0)

hashes = 2

for i in range(height):
    spaces = (height - hashes + 1)
    for j in range(spaces):
        print(" ", end="")
    for k in range(hashes):
        print("#", end="" )
    print()
    hashes += 1

Solution 1

You are using python2 and should change:

print(" ", end="")
print("#", end="" )

to:

print(" "),
print("#"),

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furthermore

You should probably change:

print() 

to

print("")

And this "beauty" can be reduced by using "\n" which translates rowbreak.

print()
print()
print()
print("I have drawn a pyramid with a height of 0!")
print("Isn't it pretty!")

to:

print("\n\n\nI have drawn a pyramid with a height of 0!\nIsn't it pretty!")

Solution 2

TL;DR: Try install pylint3

sudo apt-get install pylint3

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Today I had a nearly identical issue. I wanted to use pyreverse, but the mentioned syntax error message occurred. I have had installed both python2 and python3 so assumed that pyreverse (pylint) was just using python2, so I changed my python symlink (python2 was the default):

sudo ln -sfn /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python

But this didn’t help, so I looked if pylint haves pylint3 version and It haves. After installing pylint3 and running pyreverse3 (for your case pylint3) everything runs just fine.

I know this is an old question, but for someone else this could be helpful.