need help regarding compilation

From: fidlee@xxxxxxxxx
Date: 23 Feb 2006 09:09:43 -0800

i am new to learning jython...

i just tried compiling a small piece of code that is given below:

def fac(x)
if x<=1:return 1
return x*fac(x-1)

on

C:\Program Files\jython\temp>jythonc factor.py

it showed the following error:

processing factor
Traceback (innermost last):
File "C:\Program Files\jython\Tools\jythonc\jythonc.py", line 5, in ?
File "C:\Program Files\jython\Tools\jythonc\main.py", line 298, in
main
File "C:\Program Files\jython\Tools\jythonc\main.py", line 219, in
doCompile
File "C:\Program Files\jython\Tools\jythonc\compile.py", line 195, in
compilef
ile
File "C:\Program Files\jython\Tools\jythonc\compile.py", line 209, in
compile
File "C:\Program Files\jython\Tools\jythonc\SrcGenCompiler.py", line
1079, in
execstring
File "<string>", line 1
def fac(x)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What may have gone wrong?
I am totally clueless as it is not mentioned in any of the books that I
tried.

.

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