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SyntaxError in Python — What It Means and How to Fix It

What Python's SyntaxError exception means and how to resolve it.

Published October 27, 2026

SyntaxError is raised when Python's parser encounters code that doesn't follow valid syntax.

Key points

  • Catch it specifically with "except SyntaxError:" when you want to handle this exact case rather than a bare except

Example

def f(:  # SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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