I keep getting invalid syntax errors for colons

I recently got this error message:

  File "python", line 14
    else:
       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I’ve gotten it a couple of times for if statements, and then reset code and type the same thing and it works Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 529958d7abf8211d68005137

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can’t tell without the code, but perhaps the error was in the line above in a way that this line didn’t make sense

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Submitted by Jonatan

over 10 years

Answer 52c23d26282ae3e671000710

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Again without the code we can only guess.

Generally; make sure the line before is indented one level further than the else. Make sure the line before is a valid statement - and not blank, and not just the preceding if/elif. And make sure the else: line is indented to line up with the preceding if/elif.

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