Before learning how to fix the EOFError, it’s crucial to understand what causes it, or what even is it in the first place. EOFError(End Of File Error) is a type of exception handling errors that python raises because of either of the

Follow these reasons:

1. when the input() function is interrupted in both python 2.7 and python 3.6+
2. when the input() function reaches the end of the line unexpectedly in python 2.7
3. you forgot to enclose your code within a special statement like a for loop or while loop
4. you did not close the parentheses properly i.e number of brackets are either more or less than it should be

The BaseException class is the base class of the Exception class which in turn inherits the EOFError class. Technically speaking, EOFError is not an error, but it is an exception.

when the built-in functions such as read() or input() return a string that is empty (unable to read any data), then the EOFError exception is raised.

Or in simple words, EOFError is raised when our program is trying to read or modify something but is unable to do so.

EXAMPLES OF EOFError: 

n = int(input())

print(n * 10)

The code mentioned above will return an EOFError if no input is given to the online IDE, which means that there is no data for the program to work with. Hence the error.

animals = ["car", "dog", "mouse", "monkey"]

for i in animals:
 

In this code, we iterate through the “animal” list successfully but still, the IDE prompts an EOFError. This is because we haven’t put any code within our for-loop. This is also the case with other statements, meaning that EOFError will be raised if we don’t specify any code within the while-loop, if-else statements, or a function.

To avoid this error we have to write some code, however small it is, within the loop. Or, if we don’t want to specify any code within the statement, we can use the “pass” statement which is usually used as a placeholder for future code.

print("hello"

This code will also raise an EOFError since the number of parentheses opened and closed are not equal. To tackle this issue simply add a closing bracket at the end of the print statement and we will be good to go. Another example of the same kind of problems are:

animals = ["cat", "dog","monkey"

Since the closing square bracket is missing, the IDE will raise an EOFError.

animals = {"cat", "fish", "shark"

The same will be the case with dictionaries if the number of curly brackets is uneven.

Conclusion:

The statement “SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing” is thrown by the IDE when the interpreter reaches the end of a program before every line of code has been executed.

To solve this error our first step should be to make sure that all statements such as for-loop, while-loop, if statements, etc contain some code. Next, we should make sure that all the parentheses have been properly closed.

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