Question

Here’s what I have. I’m getting a syntax error with ‘])’, and I don’t get why?

import datetime
import PyRSS2Gen

jp = "Mokuyoubi"
en = "Thursday"

rss = PyRSS2Gen.RSS2(
    title = "Vocab of the Day - JapLearn.com",
    link = "http://www.JapLearn.com",
    description = "The latest JapLearn.com"
                  "Vocab of the Day!",

    lastBuildDate = datetime.datetime.utcnow(),

    items = [
       PyRSS2Gen.RSSItem(
         title = "Vocab of the Day - Date",
         link = "http://www.JapLearn.com",
         description = "   Japanese: "+jp+
                       "Translation: "+en,
         pubDate = datetime.datetime()
    ])

rss.write_xml(open("japlearn-votd.xml", "w"))

Answer 1

items = [
       PyRSS2Gen.RSSItem(
         title = "Vocab of the Day - Date",
         link = "http://www.JapLearn.com",
         description = "   Japanese: "+jp+
                       "Translation: "+en,
         pubDate = datetime.datetime()
    )]

Close ( parenthesis first and than close [.

As @levon suggested these things should be handelled by your editor. I personally use Vim with syntastic for automatic syntax checking.

You also need to provide provide proper arguments to pudate = datetime.datetime(). Take a look at the example given here.

Your code gave me this error on execution.

  File "rss.py", line 22, in <module>
    pubDate = datetime.datetime(),
TypeError: Required argument 'year' (pos 1) not found