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I'm using QGIS 2.18.16 and following the training manual, and I'm stuck on 6.4.5.

I've followed the example to produce an action that will search wiki, but I receive a syntax error as listed below:

An error occurred during execution of the following code:
from PyQt4.QtCore import QUrl; from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebView; myWV = QWebView(None); myWV.load(QUrl(’http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Swellendam’)); myWV.show()


  File "", line 1
    from PyQt4.QtCore import QUrl; from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebView; myWV = QWebView(None); myWV.load(QUrl(’http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Swellendam’)); myWV.show()
                                                                                                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The code:  from PyQt4.QtCore import QUrl; from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebView; myWV = QWebView(None); myWV.load(QUrl(’http://wikipedia.org/wiki/[% "name" %]’)); myWV.show()

Any thoughts on where I've gone wrong?

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  • Post your code. – HeikkiVesanto Feb 20 '18 at 14:59
  • Don't put multiple python statements on the same line separated by semicolons - makes it much harder to see what line the mistake is. – Spacedman Feb 20 '18 at 15:00
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    Perhaps you should try testing it with the 2.18 Training Manual instead of 2.14. There may have been changes to the Python API between those versions. – Joseph Feb 20 '18 at 15:00
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    I think its your quotation marks.You seem to not be using proper single quote marks. You should use ' marks. – Spacedman Feb 20 '18 at 15:01
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Your single quote marks are the wrong sort of quote mark. This is using quotes cut and pasted from your code:

s = ’http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Swellendam’

  File "<stdin>", line 1
    s = ’http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Swellendam’
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

And this is using single quotes from my keyboard:

s = 'http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Swellendam'

no syntax error.

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  • Cheers, simple stuff really! Thanks for answering. – McGraw Feb 20 '18 at 15:23

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