Statements must be separated by newlines or semicolons

Question

I'm literally using the same code as the official Betfair Developer example, the only difference is that I'm putting the APP_KEY_HERE and SESSION_TOKEN data.

But unlike the site, Visual Studio Code is giving me an error and a crash in the terminal.

Terminal response:

line 11
    print json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=3)
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

https://docs.developer.betfair.com/display/1smk3cen4v3lu3yomq5qye0ni/Getting+Started

What am I missing and what do I need to change to solve this problem?

Answer 1

In python 3.x, you have to enclose the arguments in ().

print(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=3))

Answer 2

As mentioned in comments print "" statement is written for Python 2.x and syntax for this version is not supported in VS Code.

However, you can use from __future__ import print_function and start using print() with the old interpreter or you can switch to (previously installed) Python 3.x using CTRL+SHIFT+P -> Python:Select interpreter.

Answer 3

I just wanted to put this here, even though this is not your problem. Pylance raised this issue because I was missing a " character in the preceding line of code. So if you encounter this issue, check if any strings are missing quotation marks in previous lines.