https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1003750#M59103 <P>I am attempting to create an&nbsp;<SPAN>ArcGIS Pro&nbsp;</SPAN>Python toolbox and tool.&nbsp; The script runs successfully as a standalone in Python.&nbsp; But after creating the toolbox and tool, setting the parameters, and then integrating them into the source code, I am getting a Syntax Error: invalid syntax and the toolbox will not run.&nbsp; I am importing arcpy, pandas, and numpy.&nbsp; The syntax error first shows up in the first line of the following excerpt of the source code, where I am trying to set this parameter as an integer so that in my next line, it can run the aggregate function to calculate the mean.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="python"> # Set data column of interest as an integer so that aggregate function of 'mean' will run platvlsub[parameters[1].valueAsText] = platvlsub[parameters[1].valueAsText].astype(int) # Create new dataframe of pivot table with the mean population density of communes on the Plateau platvlmn = platvlsub.pivot_table(index='Code', margins=True, margins_name='Mean_Pop_Density', aggfunc=np.mean).round(1) # Select just "Mean_Pop_Density" row into new dataframe platvlpop = platvlmn.query('Code == "Mean_Pop_Density"')</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I thought that perhaps the first line was incorrectly written, so I commented out that line.&nbsp; When I do that, the syntax error simply shifts to the next line.&nbsp; If I comment out that line, then it goes to the next line, and so forth.</P><P>Again, the error is peculiar to the&nbsp;<SPAN>ArcGIS</SPAN>&nbsp;environment since the script works in Python.&nbsp; The&nbsp;only solution I found for this elsewhere was to disable the option to run in the background, which is already set to false in this case.&nbsp; Other attempted workarounds were not successful (including rewriting the first line and shortening the variable names), thus the Toolbox will not run.&nbsp;</P><P>I am running version 2.6.1 of Pro and 3.6.1 of Python.</P> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 02:53:27 GMT ChristopherAnderson 2020-11-22T02:53:27Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1003750#M59103 <P>I am attempting to create an&nbsp;<SPAN>ArcGIS Pro&nbsp;</SPAN>Python toolbox and tool.&nbsp; The script runs successfully as a standalone in Python.&nbsp; But after creating the toolbox and tool, setting the parameters, and then integrating them into the source code, I am getting a Syntax Error: invalid syntax and the toolbox will not run.&nbsp; I am importing arcpy, pandas, and numpy.&nbsp; The syntax error first shows up in the first line of the following excerpt of the source code, where I am trying to set this parameter as an integer so that in my next line, it can run the aggregate function to calculate the mean.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="python"> # Set data column of interest as an integer so that aggregate function of 'mean' will run platvlsub[parameters[1].valueAsText] = platvlsub[parameters[1].valueAsText].astype(int) # Create new dataframe of pivot table with the mean population density of communes on the Plateau platvlmn = platvlsub.pivot_table(index='Code', margins=True, margins_name='Mean_Pop_Density', aggfunc=np.mean).round(1) # Select just "Mean_Pop_Density" row into new dataframe platvlpop = platvlmn.query('Code == "Mean_Pop_Density"')</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I thought that perhaps the first line was incorrectly written, so I commented out that line.&nbsp; When I do that, the syntax error simply shifts to the next line.&nbsp; If I comment out that line, then it goes to the next line, and so forth.</P><P>Again, the error is peculiar to the&nbsp;<SPAN>ArcGIS</SPAN>&nbsp;environment since the script works in Python.&nbsp; The&nbsp;only solution I found for this elsewhere was to disable the option to run in the background, which is already set to false in this case.&nbsp; Other attempted workarounds were not successful (including rewriting the first line and shortening the variable names), thus the Toolbox will not run.&nbsp;</P><P>I am running version 2.6.1 of Pro and 3.6.1 of Python.</P> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 02:53:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1003750#M59103 ChristopherAnderson 2020-11-22T02:53:27Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1003776#M59104 <P><EM>I thought that perhaps the first line was incorrectly written, so I commented out that line.&nbsp; When I do that, the syntax error simply shifts to the next line.&nbsp; If I comment out that line, then it goes to the next line, and so forth.</EM></P><P><SPAN>I would look back to the line <U>before</U> the one that failed.</SPAN></P> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:40:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1003776#M59104 curtvprice 2020-11-22T15:40:03Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1004192#M59114 <P>Thank you, curtvprice.&nbsp; The previous line of code had a simple bracket missing that occurred when I brought the parameter into the source code, and I completely missed it.&nbsp; Your assistance is greatly appreciated!</P> Tue, 24 Nov 2020 01:37:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcgis-pro-python-toolbox-syntaxerror-invalid/m-p/1004192#M59114 ChristopherAnderson 2020-11-24T01:37:08Z