Arijjan V writes (excerpted):
When I enter code into the compiler I continue to get multiple statement error messages. Even if I copy the code from the book.
I use Idle 34 on windows professional 7. This is what I typed into the Idle Shell.
found_coins = 20 magic_coins = 70 stolen_coins = 3 coins = found_coins for week in range(1, 53): coins = coins + magic_coins - stolen_coins print('Week %s = %s' % (week, coins)) **Click Enter** SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement
I searched online but it's not an indent error. I'd appreciate any help.
To be honest, I'm not quite sure how you managed to get that error when typing the code into IDLE - the only way I can get it to happen, is if I copy-and-paste directly into the Shell:
The reason being is that you can only copy-and-paste line-by-line into the Shell window (a quirk of the way it works). What you should actually be entering looks like this:
If you want to paste in a large chunk of code, then click File, then New File, then paste the code, and save the file before trying to run it:
If you can reproduce the problem when typing in the code, send a screenshot (take it after entering a few lines) -- I'd be interested to see if it's obvious from the screenshot what the cause is...