Why does a Python script work on Windows and not in Linux?

Question

I have from one side Windows 7 with Python 2.7.12 and on the other side Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 with Python 2.6.6.

I have a script that works fine on Windows but not on RHEL.

I receive the following syntax error:

with open('pathtofile', 'rb') as f_input, open('pathtofile', 'w') as f_output:
#                                       ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It may be caused by different versions of Python on the two systems?

PM 2Ring · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-14 11:09:04Z

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with open('pathtofile', 'rb') as f_input, open('pathtofile', 'w') as f_output:

is not supported by Python 2.6. In that version you can only open one file in the with statement. Instead, you can do

with open('pathtofile', 'rb') as f_input:
    with open('pathtofile', 'w') as f_output:

answered Nov 14, 2016 at 11:09

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