Merging Files generates the error: SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

Asked Jan 10 '18 at 01:19

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I'm working on an exercise which is the merging of three files into a new file with the current date as the file name; this is the error i get "SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing", please help. My code is:

file_name = datetime.datetime.now()

def createFile(lst):
    with open(file_name.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%f")+".txt","w") as myFile:
        for i in lst:
            myFile.write(i+"\n")

file_list = ["file1.txt","file2.txt","file3.txt"]
lst = []

for j in file_list:
    with open(j,"r") as i:
        lst.append(i.readlines())

createFile(lst)

The Error Message is:

File "exrFile.py", line 11
                                         ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

asked Jan 10 '18 at 01:19

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Possible duplicate of [Python unexpected EOF while parsing](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5074225/python-unexpected-eof-while-parsing) – zfj3ub94rf576hc4eegm Jan 10 '18 at 01:21
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Don't think so for that particular question because this question's code not contain `raw_input`. – Elliott Beach Jan 10 '18 at 01:24
Open the files in binary mode `with open( ... , 'rb')` – James Jan 10 '18 at 01:25
You need to post _all_ of your code. If it’s too long, shorten it rather than excerpting it. You might even find your error yourself in so doing. – Davis Herring Jan 10 '18 at 01:46

Merging Files generates the error: SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

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