"Invalid Syntax" (I am a new coder)

[Marius2002]

I started to learn programming yesterday and today I wanted to make a function about our grade system. Unfortunatley i don't know why i got "SyntaError: invalid syntax"

This was my code:

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f* 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax, it also underlines "freshman_grades" for some reason.

Appreciate any help I can get!

/Marius

[Axel_Erfurt]

you must indent the line after def

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
    return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f* 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
print(freshman_grades)

[Marius2002]

you must indent the line after def

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
          return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f* 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)
print(freshman_grades)

Sorry for the bad presentation of my code but i have actually indented my code, I can't get the indention to show up though D:

When i copied your code i still got Invalid Syntax, which is very weird.

Thanks anyways!

[Mekire]

No syntax errors there. Are you perhaps mixing tabs and spaces?
Please post a copy of your exact error.

[Marius2002]

def merit(a, b, c, d, e, f, m):
	return ((a * 2000 + b * 1750 + c * 1500 + d * 1250 + e * 1000 + f * 0)/(100 * (a + b + c + d + e + f)) + m)
freshman_grades = merit(4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.5)

There you go! It seems to think that freshman_grades is the error for some reason.

[snippsat]

Sorry for the bad presentation of my code but i have actually indented my code, I can't get the indention to show up though D:

Look at BBCode.

When i copied your code i still got Invalid Syntax, which is very weird.

Do you copy into IDLE, has >>> ?
It's for interactive testing line bye line based.

If copy in whole code has to use New File.
The a new window open,paste or write in code as save with .py extension.
Run -> Run Module(F5).

[Marius2002]

Sorry for the bad presentation of my code but i have actually indented my code, I can't get the indention to show up though D:

Look at BBCode.

When i copied your code i still got Invalid Syntax, which is very weird.

Do you copy into IDLE, has >>> ?
It's for interactive testing line bye line based.

If copy in whole code has to use New File.
The a new window open,paste or write in code as save with .py extension.
Run -> Run Module(F5).

Could you rephrase that a little, since I am very new i can't really understand what you mean.

[snippsat]

What do you use to run your code and OS as python works on all platforms Windows,Linux and Mac.
IDLE can often be what people start with.
Here image i used before to explain it.

[Marius2002]

What do you use to run your code and OS as python works on all platforms Windows,Linux and Mac.
IDLE can often be what people start with.
Here image i used before to explain it.

Thnak you so much! Now it works!