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Edit down to proper MRE; remove irrelevant chatter; ask a question directly that's focused on the problematic code; re-remove old tag; add maintenance note because of the technical issues in presenting this question
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Karl Knechtel
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I am working on the letter distribution problem from HPhave some code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says invalid character in identifier. What does this mean and how can it be fixed. here is the page with the information. hpcodewars.org/past/cw15/problems/2012ProblemsFinalForPrinting.pdf here is the codeincludes:

import string
def text_analyzer(text):
'''The text to be parsed and
the number of occurrences of the letters given back
be. Punctuation marks, and I ignore the EOF
simple. The function is thus very limited.
'''
 result = {}
 
# Processing
 for a in string.ascii_lowercase:
 result [a] = text.lower (). count (a)
 
 return result
def analysis_result (results):
# I look at the data
 keys = analysis.keys ()
 values ​​= list(analysis.values ​​())
 values.sort (reverse = True )
# I turn to the dictionary and
# Must avoid that letters will be overwritten
 w2 = {}
 list = []
 
 for key in keys:
 item = w2.get (results [key], 0 )
 if item = = 0 :
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = [key]
 else :
 item.append (key)
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = item
# We get the keys
 keys = list (w2.keys ())
 keys.sort (reverse = True )
 
 for key in  keys:
 list = w2 [key]
 More listecode.sort ()
 for a in list:
 print (a.upper (), "*" * key) 
 
text = """I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be Judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
# # # """
analysis result = text_analyzer (text)
analysis_results (results)

But I get an error from the values ​​= list(analysis.values ​​()) line that says SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier. Why? What is wrong with the code, and how do I fix it?

Note carefully that retyping the code as it appears does not cause a SyntaxError, but copying and pasting it does.


The error here is due to non-printing text that cannot be seen in the code example. Do not close the question as not reproducible, and take special care when editing. At some prior point in the question's history, it was edited to try to "show" the invalid character by using a backslash escape sequence. This does not work; we can only see this by treating the code as a string and asking Python for a string representation. While it would also be incorrect to type code that uses backslash escape sequences, the error message would be different.

I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says invalid character in identifier. What does this mean and how can it be fixed. here is the page with the information. hpcodewars.org/past/cw15/problems/2012ProblemsFinalForPrinting.pdf here is the code

import string
def text_analyzer(text):
'''The text to be parsed and
the number of occurrences of the letters given back
be. Punctuation marks, and I ignore the EOF
simple. The function is thus very limited.
'''
 result = {}
 
# Processing
 for a in string.ascii_lowercase:
 result [a] = text.lower (). count (a)
 
 return result
def analysis_result (results):
# I look at the data
 keys = analysis.keys ()
 values ​​= list(analysis.values ​​())
 values.sort (reverse = True )
# I turn to the dictionary and
# Must avoid that letters will be overwritten
 w2 = {}
 list = []
 
 for key in keys:
 item = w2.get (results [key], 0 )
 if item = = 0 :
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = [key]
 else :
 item.append (key)
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = item
# We get the keys
 keys = list (w2.keys ())
 keys.sort (reverse = True )
 
 for key in  keys:
 list = w2 [key]
  liste.sort ()
 for a in list:
 print (a.upper (), "*" * key) 
 
text = """I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be Judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
# # # """
analysis result = text_analyzer (text)
analysis_results (results)

I have some code that includes:

def analysis_result (results):
 keys = analysis.keys ()
 values ​​= list(analysis.values ​​())
 values.sort (reverse = True )
 # More code...

But I get an error from the values ​​= list(analysis.values ​​()) line that says SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier. Why? What is wrong with the code, and how do I fix it?

Note carefully that retyping the code as it appears does not cause a SyntaxError, but copying and pasting it does.


The error here is due to non-printing text that cannot be seen in the code example. Do not close the question as not reproducible, and take special care when editing. At some prior point in the question's history, it was edited to try to "show" the invalid character by using a backslash escape sequence. This does not work; we can only see this by treating the code as a string and asking Python for a string representation. While it would also be incorrect to type code that uses backslash escape sequences, the error message would be different.

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I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says "invalidinvalid character in identifier"identifier. What does this mean and how can it be fixed?

Here . here is the page with the information. hpcodewars.org/past/cw15/problems/2012ProblemsFinalForPrinting.pdf here is the code

import string
def text_analyzer(text):
'''The text to be parsed and
the number of occurrences of the letters given back
be. Punctuation marks, and I ignore the EOF
simple. The function is thus very limited.
'''
 result = {}
 
# Processing
 for a in string.ascii_lowercase:
 result [a] = text.lower (). count (a)
 
 return result
def analysis_result (results):
# I look at the data
 keys = analysis.keys ()
 values \u200b\u200b=​​= list(analysis.values \u200b\u200b​​())
 values.sort (reverse = True )
# I turn to the dictionary and
# Must avoid that letters will be overwritten
 w2 = {}
 list = []
 
 for key in keys:
 item = w2.get (results [key], 0 )
 if item = = 0 :
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = [key]
 else :
 item.append (key)
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = item
# We get the keys
 keys = list (w2.keys ())
 keys.sort (reverse = True )
 
 for key in keys:
 list = w2 [key]
 liste.sort ()
 for a in list:
 print (a.upper (), "*" * key) 
 
text = """I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be Judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
# # # """
analysis result = text_analyzer (text)
analysis_results (results)

I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says "invalid character in identifier". What does this mean and how can it be fixed?

Here is the page with the information.

import string
def text_analyzer(text):
'''The text to be parsed and
the number of occurrences of the letters given back
be. Punctuation marks, and I ignore the EOF
simple. The function is thus very limited.
'''
 result = {}
 
# Processing
 for a in string.ascii_lowercase:
 result [a] = text.lower (). count (a)
 
 return result
def analysis_result (results):
# I look at the data
 keys = analysis.keys ()
 values \u200b\u200b= list(analysis.values \u200b\u200b())
 values.sort (reverse = True )
# I turn to the dictionary and
# Must avoid that letters will be overwritten
 w2 = {}
 list = []
 
 for key in keys:
 item = w2.get (results [key], 0 )
 if item = = 0 :
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = [key]
 else :
 item.append (key)
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = item
# We get the keys
 keys = list (w2.keys ())
 keys.sort (reverse = True )
 
 for key in keys:
 list = w2 [key]
 liste.sort ()
 for a in list:
 print (a.upper (), "*" * key) 
 
text = """I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be Judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
# # # """
analysis result = text_analyzer (text)
analysis_results (results)

I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says invalid character in identifier. What does this mean and how can it be fixed. here is the page with the information. hpcodewars.org/past/cw15/problems/2012ProblemsFinalForPrinting.pdf here is the code

import string
def text_analyzer(text):
'''The text to be parsed and
the number of occurrences of the letters given back
be. Punctuation marks, and I ignore the EOF
simple. The function is thus very limited.
'''
 result = {}
 
# Processing
 for a in string.ascii_lowercase:
 result [a] = text.lower (). count (a)
 
 return result
def analysis_result (results):
# I look at the data
 keys = analysis.keys ()
 values ​​= list(analysis.values ​​())
 values.sort (reverse = True )
# I turn to the dictionary and
# Must avoid that letters will be overwritten
 w2 = {}
 list = []
 
 for key in keys:
 item = w2.get (results [key], 0 )
 if item = = 0 :
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = [key]
 else :
 item.append (key)
 w2 [analysis results [key]] = item
# We get the keys
 keys = list (w2.keys ())
 keys.sort (reverse = True )
 
 for key in keys:
 list = w2 [key]
 liste.sort ()
 for a in list:
 print (a.upper (), "*" * key) 
 
text = """I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be Judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
# # # """
analysis result = text_analyzer (text)
analysis_results (results)
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I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says invalid"invalid character in identifieridentifier". What does this mean and how can it be fixed. here?

Here is the page with the information. hpcodewars.org/past/cw15/problems/2012ProblemsFinalForPrinting.pdf here is the code

I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says invalid character in identifier. What does this mean and how can it be fixed. here is the page with the information. hpcodewars.org/past/cw15/problems/2012ProblemsFinalForPrinting.pdf here is the code

I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says "invalid character in identifier". What does this mean and how can it be fixed?

Here is the page with the information.

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