Question

I’m trying to read a file line by line. This file has alot of lines.
Each line is formatted like for example:

data:otherdata1
data:someotherdata2

But for debug purposes I’m using a file with a few lines, same format.
And I’m trying to print those data.

But I’m getting the error:

print data.split(':')
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What is wrong? I’m really lost in this.

def process(data):
    print data.split(':') #printing for debug purposes
    return data

file = open("list.txt")
for line in file:
    process(line) 

and yes I added import fileinput

Answer 1

You are using Python3 with Python2 syntax.

In Python3, print is a function, not a statement. So use

print(data.split(':'))

instead.