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 unexpected token `('

Answer 1

Are you typing this at the unix command prompt? You should be doing this inside the python environment, ie. type python at the prompt and work from there.

Also, no ; needed at the end of the line in Python

Answer 2

add #!/usr/bin/env python at the top of your script, or call your script using python myscript.py

Answer 3

add

#!/usr/bin/env python

or but i will prefer to use the above one.

#!/usr/bin/python

In case you have installed python 2 and python 3 and python 2 is default you can run python 3 by using these command

#!/usr/bin/env python3

at top of the file

or run this way

python code.py

Answer 4

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. :)