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### Misplaced, missing, or mismatched punctuation
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1. Ensure that parentheses `()`, brackets `[]`, and braces `{}` are properly closed. When left unclosed, the Python interpreter treats everything following the first parenthesis, bracket, or brace as a single statement. Take a look at this web scraping code sample that sends a set of [<u>crawling</u>](https://oxylabs.io/blog/crawling-vs-scraping)instructions to our [<u>Web Crawler tool</u>](https://oxylabs.io/features/web-crawler):
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1. Ensure that parentheses `()`, brackets `[]`, and braces `{}` are properly closed. When left unclosed, the Python interpreter treats everything following the first parenthesis, bracket, or brace as a single statement. Take a look at this web scraping code sample that sends parsing instructions to our [web scraping tool](https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/web):
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```python
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payload = {
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"url": "https://www.example.com/",
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"filters": {
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"crawl": [".*"],
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"process": [".*"],
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"max_depth": 1,
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"scrape_params": {
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"user_agent_type": "desktop",
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},
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"output": {
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"type_": "sitemap"
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"source": "universal",
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"url": "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1",
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"parse": True,
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"parsing_instructions": {
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"title": {
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"_fns": [
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{
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"_fn": "css_one",
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"_args": ["h2"]
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}
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]
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}
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# Error message
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SyntaxError: '{' was never closed
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```
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At first glance, it looks like the payload was closed with braces, but
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the Python interpreter raises a syntax error that says otherwise. In
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this particular case, the `“filters”` parameter isn’t closed with
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braces, which the interpreter, unfortunately, doesn’t show in its
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traceback. You can fix the error by closing the `“filters”` parameter:
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At first glance, it may look like the `payload` was closed with braces, but the Python interpreter raises a syntax error that says otherwise. You can fix the error by closing the `payload`:
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```python
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payload = {
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"url": "https://www.amazon.com/",
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"filters": {
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"crawl": [".*"],
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"process": [".*"],
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"max_depth": 1
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"scrape_params": {
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"user_agent_type": "desktop",
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},
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"output": {
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"type_": "sitemap"
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"source": "universal",
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"url": "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1",
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"parse": True,
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"parsing_instructions": {
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"title": {
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"_fns": [
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{
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"_fn": "css_one",
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"_args": ["h2"]
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}
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]
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}
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}# Add the missing brace
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```
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2. Make sure you close a string with proper quotes. For example, if you started your string with a single quote ‘, then use a single quote again at the end of your string. The below code snippet illustrates this:
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