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Perl to Python convert here. At first I hated the whitespace, but when I went back to Perl, I moved some code about and "lost" a brace. You never get the unmatched brace problem in Python.

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Getting that message is not a bad thing as it tells you there's a problem as opposed to just silently doing something you didn't want it to do.

Yes, but its just as likely you pasted in the wrong place. Python makes you a little more disciplined when cut-pasting bits of code around.

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