syntaxerror-invalid-syntax

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Reproduce

def add_member(name, phone)
    return {"name": name, "phone": phone}

Error Messsge

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Fix

def add_member(name, phone):
    return {"name": name, "phone": phone}

Reflection

Missed a colon after function definition.

Reference

• Related case: https://pyai.io/en/python/basic/errors-and-tracebacks/

Related Context

• Seen while building a simple contact-log script.