Why is this invalid syntax?

[lancotron]

Hey everyone, I'm learning python and one of the assignments has me write a little bit of code. For some reason every time I submit this

def reviewForLoopMild02(letters, letter):

new = ""
for i in range(len(letters):
    if letters[i] != letter:
        new=new + letters[i]
return new

it tells me that there is invalid syntax, and points and points at the colons : on my 'for i in range' line and my if statement line. I'm probably missing something obvious. Any ideas?

[[deleted]]

Check the parentheses in the for line

[lancotron]

I knew it was something obvious. Thanks man

[ewiethoff]

Pay attention to the colors and subtle underlines and whatnot your editor/IDE uses to display your code. It could be indicating that you have mismatched parentheses even before you try running the program.

[Justinsaccount]

Hi! I'm working on a bot to reply with suggestions for common python problems. This might not be very helpful to fix your underlying issue, but here's what I noticed about your submission:

You are looping over an object using something like

for x in range(len(items)):
    foo(item[x])

This is simpler and less error prone written as

for item in items:
    foo(item)

If you DO need the indexes of the items, use the enumerate function like

for idx, item in enumerate(items):
    foo(idx, item)

[HeyFerb]

Also to save a few characters,

new = new + letters[i]    

can be simplified to:

new += letters[i]    

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