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kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:09 PM

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I am very new to coding and know basically nothing, when using IDLE to edit my code, sometimes when pasting things i have stored in notepad, some of the words become colored and creates errors in my code, why is this?

hazy burrowBOT Feb 23, 2025, 10:09 PM

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kindred trail I am very new to coding and know basically nothing, when using IDLE to edit my c...

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potent shore Feb 23, 2025, 10:10 PM

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kindred trail I am very new to coding and know basically nothing, when using IDLE to edit my c...

it doesnt seem like an error and more like glitched out rendering

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does the code run fine?

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:10 PM

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no it errors out starting at the first colored line, if i backspace and manually type the entire paragraph or section, the color goes away and code runs

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if i backspace one letter from colored words, when i complete the word again, color comes back

spring pulsar Feb 23, 2025, 10:12 PM

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The text is being considered as Python code by the highlighter. and is colored because that's a keyword, and r's to the end of the line is colored because r' starts a raw string.

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:13 PM

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how do i resolve this? i have the exact formatting for other text earilier in the code that does not do this, it only happens when i paste from notepad

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empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:14 PM

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can you paste your code as text instead of a screenshot

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:15 PM

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i have 15 or so of these, the first one is ok and i had the other 14 written in a notepad and pasted into IDLE, it creates the wierd colors and errors out

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SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 37)

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i know its messy guys, its still getting worked on!

empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:16 PM

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you likely didn't terminate the string before it

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:16 PM

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Its terminated

empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:16 PM

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it doesn't look so in the screenshot

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you'd have to provide more context to be sure

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:17 PM

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SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 44)

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all i did was backspace one letter from each colored word, the error moved down to next lines

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no more colored text

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no error regarding those lines anymore

empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:18 PM

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the colored text and the syntax error are two different things

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:18 PM

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the colored text is causing the syntax error

empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:18 PM

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no it isn't

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:19 PM

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how do you figure? i remove the colored text and the error goes away

empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:19 PM

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the colored text is your IDE trying to highlight python syntax, it probably thinks the text in the string literal is python code as a result of the previous syntax error

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i can't be more specific unless you provide your actual code

kindred trail Feb 23, 2025, 10:22 PM

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empty venture the colored text is your IDE trying to highlight python syntax, it probably thin...

this actually helped me figure it out

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i was forgetting a the 3 "s it needed after the first entry

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i have been using python for 4 days, its so much fun

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thanks!

empty venture Feb 23, 2025, 10:24 PM

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np

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