Invalid syntax error in python script

Question

When trying to run a python script with cmd it gives me this error "Invalid syntax".

Here's the code, and the invalid error is in line 3 "raise bla bla"

def make_chunk(tag, data):
    if len(tag) != 4:
      raise â€کYo!They call it “FourCCâ€‌ for a reason.’
    ret = struct.pack(â€ک>L’, len(data) + 8)
    ret += tag
    ret += data
    return ret

Answer 1

Your code editor replaced single ( ' - U+0027 APOSTROPHE ) and double ( " - U+0022 QUOTATION MARK ) ASCII quotes with 'fancy' quotes, specifically:

• ' - U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
• ' - U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
• “ - U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK and
• ” - U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

You then saved the file as UTF-8, and tried to have Python run it.

Python doesn't support anything but the ASCII quotes for strings, so an exception was raised, and because your console is configured as Windows codepage 1256 you see the weird Mojibake output:

>>> print u'\u2018 - \u2019 - \u201C - \u201D'
‘ - ’ - “ - ”
>>> u'\u2018 - \u2019 - \u201C - \u201D'.encode('utf8')
'\xe2\x80\x98 - \xe2\x80\x99 - \xe2\x80\x9c - \xe2\x80\x9d'
>>> print u'\u2018 - \u2019 - \u201C - \u201D'.encode('utf8').decode('cp1256')
â€ک - ’ - “ - â€‌

Use a better (code) editor or tell the current editor to not replace simple quotes with fancy quotes.

Answer 2

It doesn't answer your question, but it will solve your problem.

Download the exploit from github instead of exploit-db

https://gist.github.com/tfairane/fedb4881945bab998504#file-stagefright_cve-2015-1538-1_exploit-py-L6

Your welcome