Question

I’m getting a very strange Python 3 error when trying to compare three variables in a if loop.

if now.weekday() == 6 or minutesRemaining <= 60 or modeArg == "run":
                                                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

What does this mean?

My code works when I compare modeArg by itself:

if modeArg == "run":

And also when I only write the first two statements:

if now.weekday() == 6 or minutesRemaining <= 60:

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My code is on GitHub. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You have something which looks like a space which isn’t in that line:

\tif now.weekday() == 6 or minutesRemaining <= 60 or\xc2\xa0modeArg == "run":\n
                                                    ^^^^^^^^

Incidentally, you probably want to avoid using tabs for indentation: four spaces make life much easier.