python SyntaxError EOL while scanning string literal

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I have the above-mentioned error in s1  some very long string                Does anyone know what I am doing wrong

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In my situation  I had  r n in my single-quoted dictionary strings  I replaced all instances of  r with   r and  n with   n and it fixed my issue  properly returning escaped line breaks in the eval ed dict   ast literal eval my str replace   r     r   replace   n     n

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You are not putting a   before the end of the line    Use     if you want to do this       a very long string             that can span multiple lines

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In my case  I use Windows so I have to use double quotes instead of single   C  Users Dr  Printer gt python -mtimeit -s a   0  100000000 loops  best of 3  0 011 usec per loop

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In this case  three single quotations or three double quotations both will work  For example          Parameters         Type something               finishing statement      OR         Parameters         Type something               finishing statement

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I had this problem - I eventually worked out that the reason was that I d included   characters in the string  If you have any of these   escape  them with    and it should work fine

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I also had this exact error message  for me the problem was fixed by adding an       It turns out that my long string  broken into about eight lines with      at the very end  was missing a      on one line   Python IDLE didn t specify a line number that this error was on  but it red-highlighted a totally correct variable assignment statement  throwing me off   The actual misshapen string statement  multiple lines long with       was adjacent to the statement being highlighted   Maybe this will help someone else

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Most previous answers are correct and my answer is very similar to aaronasterling  you could also do 3 single quotations  s1    some very long string

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I too had this problem  though there were answers here I want to an important point to this after    there should not be empty spaces Be Aware of it

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In my case with Mac OS X  I had the following statement     model export srcpkg platform  toolchain   mymodel pkg zip    mymodel dylib       I was getting the error       File   lt stdin gt    line 1 model export srcpkg platform  toolchain   mymodel pkg zip    mymodel dylib                                                                                    SyntaxError  EOL while scanning string literal   After I change to     model export srcpkg platform  toolchain   mymodel pkg zip    mymodel dylib     It worked       David

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I faced a similar problem  I had a string which contained path to a folder in Windows e g  C  Users  The problem is that   is an escape character and so in order to use it in strings you need to add one more      Incorrect  C  Users   Correct    C    Users

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Assuming you don t have want line breaks in your string      How long is this string really   I suspect there is a limit to how long a line read from a file or from the commandline can be  and because the end of the line gets choped off the parser sees something like s1  some very long string            without an ending    and thus throws a parsing error   You can split long lines up in multiple lines by escaping linebreaks in your source like this   s1  some very long string

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All code below was tested with Python 3 8 3  Simplest -- just use triple quotes  Either single  long string      some very  long string                  or double  long string    quot  quot  quot some very  long string              quot  quot  quot   Note  triple quoted strings retain indentation  it means that long string    quot  quot  quot some     very      long string              quot  quot  quot   and long string    quot  quot  quot some     very  long string              quot  quot  quot   or even just long string    quot  quot  quot  some very  long string              quot  quot  quot   are not the same  There is a textwrap dedent function in standard library to deal with this  though working with it is out of question s scope   You can  as well  use  n inside a string  residing on single line  long string    quot some  nvery  nlong  nstring  n             quot    Also  if you don t need any linefeeds  i e  newlines  in your string  you can use   inside regular string  long string    quot some   very   long   string                quot

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I had faced the same problem while accessing any hard drive directory   Then I solved it in this way    import os  os startfile  D  folder name file name    running shortcut  os startfile  F     accessing directory     The picture above shows an error and resolved output

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You can try this   s   r long annoying path

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In my case  I forgot    or  quot   at the end of string  E g  ABC  or  quot ABC quot

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Your variable s1  spans multiple lines  In order to do this  i e you want your string to span multiple lines   you have to use triple quotes        s1    some very long  string

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I was getting this error in postgresql function  I had a long SQL which I broke into multiple lines with   for better readability  However  that was the problem  I removed all and made them in one line to fix the issue  I was using pgadmin III

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