bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' - Python

Question

# from lxml import etree; 
import module2dbk; 
print module2dbk.xsl_transform(etree.parse(\'test-ccap/col10614/index.cnxml\'), []);

Error: bash: syntax error near u         


        

Answer 1

Well I had exactly the same problem. I had tried everything and nothing really worked. My program was running perfectly on Windows command prompt, and on my iPhone Python app interpreter, but not on my Macbook's terminal, where I always got the following error whenever I tried to run the program:

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Finally the comment above from the user tripleee helped me come up with a solution; although his solution of adding !/usr/bin/python at the very start of my code didn't do it for me it helped me understand as he wrote that:

The error message indicates that the script gets executed by bash, not python.

Then I noticed that my code(extra).py contained '(' apostrophes, I renamed to my codeextra.py and that was it, problem solved. :)