Why is this a python syntax error during an initialisation?

Question

This code:

class Todo:
 def addto(self, list_name="", text=""):
  """
  Adds an item to the specified list.
  """
  if list_name == "":
   list_name = sys.argv[2]
   text = ''.join(sys.argv[3:]

  todo_list = TodoList(getListFilename(list_name))

produces a syntax error with the little arrow pointing to todo_list on the last line.

The __init__ method for TodoList is here:

def __init__(self, json_location):
 """
 Sets up the list.
 """
 self.json_location = json_location
 self.load()

I am kind of new to Python, so I don't see what I am doing wrong here.

Answer 1

you need to close this )

text = ''.join(sys.argv[3:]