Deleting the empty line resulted in another syntax error, this time in a line below, following the same pattern. I proceeded to remove all empty lines that resulted in syntax errors. On all accounts ...

Environment To diagnose, we usually need to know the following, including version numbers. On Windows, be sure to specify 32-bit Python or 64-bit: Python: 3.7.4 (64 bit) pyodbc: 4.0.27 OS: Linux ...