White-space generating "invalid character in identifier"

Asked Aug 22 '17 at 11:22

Active Aug 22 '17 at 11:22

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I have a list of objects:

obj_map = [ 
    {"editable": "true", "col_name": "numberEnds", "display": "true"},
    {"editable": "false", "col_name": "id", "display": "false"},
    {"editable": "true", "col_name": "store_code", "display": "true"},
    {"editable": "true", "col_name": "store_id", "display": "true"}

              ]

Which generates the following error:

{"editable": "true", "col_name": "numberEnds", "display": "true"},
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

Why is whitespace being interpreted as an invalid character in this scenario?

asked Aug 22 '17 at 11:22

DariusFontaine

I can't seem to reproduce the error.. are you sure this is all of your code? Is there anything before it that may have lead to this? – Izaak van Dongen Aug 22 '17 at 11:25
Runs fine for me. AFAIK, Python doesn't have an error with: "SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier". – Christian Dean Aug 22 '17 at 11:26
I am not getting any error with this. using python version 3.4 in ubuntu. – Shiv Shankar Aug 22 '17 at 11:27
Well, looks like I was wrong... – Christian Dean Aug 22 '17 at 11:27
Thanks guys. Turns out the code was initially pasted from Libre Office, rather than a plain text editor, which encodes whitespace differently to Sublime. – DariusFontaine Aug 22 '17 at 11:52

White-space generating "invalid character in identifier"

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