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Matthew Johnston
Matthew Johnston

Reputation: 9

Variable Declaration not Working

I tried to declare a variable 'join', in python, which typically only requires you to name a variable and insert some kind of value for it. When I did so, it said "invalid syntax": (join = 0.48 returned SyntaxError: invalid syntax Does anyone know why it won't work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (1)

Padraic Cunningham
Padraic Cunningham

Reputation: 180522

You cannot set a variable inside a tuple:

In [16]: (join = 0.48)
  File "<ipython-input-16-5ecf737095f6>", line 1
    (join = 0.48)
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Using:

In [17]: join = 0.48
In [18]: join
Out[18]: 0.48

works fine.

Also join is a str method so best avoided as a variable name.

Upvotes: 2

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