did you see the errorwe've forgotten to put colon at the end of the if statement' condition here is an example that comes up quite oftenbut where the problem isn' at all obviousfile "blocks py"line except valueerror as errsyntaxerrorinvalid syntax there is no syntax error in the line indicatedso both the line number and the caret' position are wrong in generalwhen we are faced with an error that we are convinced is not in the specified linein almost every case the error will be in an earlier line here' the code from the try to the except where python is reporting the error to be--see if you can spot the error before reading the explanation that follows the codetryblocks parse(blockssvg file replace(blk"svg"if not blockoutput save_blocks_as_svg(blockssvg)print("errorfailed to save { }format(svgexcept valueerror as errdid you spot the problemit is certainly easy to miss since it is on the line before the one that python reports as having the error we have closed the str format(method' parenthesesbut not the print(function' parenthesesthat iswe are missing closing parenthesis at the end of the linebut python didn' realize this until it reached the except keyword on the following line missing the last parenthesis on line is quite commonespecially when using print(with str format()but the error is usually reported on the following line similarlyif list' closing bracketor set or dictionary' closing brace is missingpython will normally report the problem as being on the next (nonblankline on the plus sidesyntax errors like these are trivial to fix dealing with runtime errors |if an unhandled exception occurs at runtimepython will stop executing our program and print traceback here is an example of traceback for an unhandled exceptiontraceback (most recent call last)file "blocks py"line in main(file "blocks py"line in main