Subj : Error message
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Fri Feb 05 2021 21:57:12

On 05 Feb 2021, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...
 Wv>  CP> python scraping.py
 Wv>  CP> File "scraping.py", line 5
 Wv>  CP>   def
 Wv>  CP> hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):
 Wv>  CP>                                        ^
 Wv>  CP>  SyntaxError: invalid
 Wv>  CP> syntax
 Wv> 
 Wv> 
 Wv> 
 Wv>  CP> The code is:
 Wv> 
 Wv>  CP> # scraping function
 Wv>  CP> def hackernews_rss('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss'):
 Wv> 
 Wv> There should be a variable there between the (), not a constant in this 
 Wv> function definition.

Ah, so my source is wrong.

 Wv>  CP>     try:
 Wv>  CP>         r = requests.get()
 Wv> 
 Wv> Is 'requests' defined of set somewhere? I don't see it.

I'm going through the steps as they were laid out.  I was hoping that going
through the steps of sonething that says it works would help me pick it up
better.Apparently this was a poor choice.

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