[FIXED] Pythont 3.6.5 SyntaxError

Issue

I have just started writing in python, and the indentation is taking the best of me. I have this code:

import json

if __name__ == '__main__':
    is_json('test')

def is_json(str):
    try:
        json.loads(str)
    except ValueError, e:
        return False
    return True 

Which throws:

File "so.py", line 9 except ValueError, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I am using only tabs.

Solution

Your code had two mistakes:

• First in the except part

• Second is that you declared is_json at the bottom

If you declare at bottom you may get NameError: name 'is_json' is not defined error.

    import json

    def is_json(str):
        try:
            json.loads(str)
        except ValueError as e:
            return False
        return True

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        is_json('test')

Answered By - shubham johar