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Ricky Robinson
Ricky Robinson

Reputation: 22913

Python: SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

In a Python script I call a function from rpy2, but I get this error:

#using an R module 
res = DirichletReg.ddirichlet(np.asarray(my_values),alphas,
                              log=False, sum.up=False) 
SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

What exactly went wrong here?

Upvotes: 47

Views: 220738

Answers (5)

Bob Yoplait
Bob Yoplait

Reputation: 2501

Using the Elastic search DSL API, you may hit the same error with

s = Search(using=client, index="my-index") \
    .query("match", category.keyword="Musician")

You can solve it by doing:

s = Search(using=client, index="my-index") \
    .query({"match": {"category.keyword":"Musician/Band"}})

Upvotes: 7

Vadim
Vadim

Reputation: 4529

I guess many of us who came to this page have a problem with Scikit Learn, one way to solve it is to create a dictionary with parameters and pass it to the model:

params = {'C': 1e9, 'gamma': 1e-07}
cls = SVC(**params)

Upvotes: 24

Marcin W.
Marcin W.

Reputation: 61

I just got that problem when converting from % formatting to .format().

Previous code:

"SET !TIMEOUT_STEP %{USER_TIMEOUT_STEP}d" % {'USER_TIMEOUT_STEP' = 3}

Problematic syntax:

"SET !TIMEOUT_STEP {USER_TIMEOUT_STEP}".format('USER_TIMEOUT_STEP' = 3)

The problem is that format is a function that needs parameters. They cannot be strings. That is one of worst python error messages I've ever seen.

Corrected code:

"SET !TIMEOUT_STEP {USER_TIMEOUT_STEP}".format(USER_TIMEOUT_STEP = 3)

Upvotes: 3

Vladimir
Vladimir

Reputation: 10513

It's python source parser failure on sum.up=False named argument as sum.up is not valid argument name (you can't use dots -- only alphanumerics and underscores in argument names).

Upvotes: 8

Sven Marnach
Sven Marnach

Reputation: 602355

sum.up is not a valid keyword argument name. Keyword arguments must be valid identifiers. You should look in the documentation of the library you are using how this argument really is called – maybe sum_up?

Upvotes: 39

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