unexpected line continuation character

Question

i am learning how to do data science and was following the kaggle tutorial for titanic.

However,

women_only_stats = data[                          \ #Which element           
                     (data[0::,4] == "female")    \ #is a female
                   &(data[0::,2].astype(np.float) \ #and was ith class
                         == i+1) \                       
                   &(data[0:,9].astype(np.float)  \#was greater 
                        >= j*fare_bracket_size)   \#than this bin              
                   &(data[0:,9].astype(np.float)  \#and less than
                        < (j+1)*fare_bracket_size)\#the next bin    
                      , 1]                        #in the 2nd col

I got this error on the first line of (data[0::,4] == "female")

Error:

SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

Is this the exact code you're running or did you add the comments just for posting? — robert, Sep 20 '15 at 09:32
You cannot have comments after the line continuation character - `\\` - remove the comments and try — Anand S Kumar, Sep 20 '15 at 09:32
I copied the code from here https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic/details/getting-started-with-python — aceminer, Sep 20 '15 at 09:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '15 at 09:35

Your code (and the code on the website you copied from) has backslashes followed by comments. E.g.

\ #is a female

The backslash is the "line continuation character". The error is telling you you shouldn't have a line continuation character followed by more text (in this case a comment).

Take out the backslashes.

unexpected line continuation character

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