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'SyntaxError': 'return' outside function?

I have a super large file containing more than 1000 FASTA sequences merged. I want to extract the list of accession IDs from the file. But the following code got me an error. Can anybody tell me why and how to solve this? All my sequences contains a header file like this,

>NZ_QJRW01000001 (<'gap type:'>, <'description'>, 'gap start:', XXXXX, 'gap end:', XXXXX)**

Here is a snippet from the python script I have tried,

snippet from the code

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updated by GenoMax GenoMax • written by namck • namck

if you want to stop the loop at the first time, there is no match use "break". if you want to skip the line with no match and continue use "continue"

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written by romain.lannes romain.lannes

Any particular reason you are doing this with python (other than perhaps learning python)? Or is there more to this script than just accession recovery. That can be done with a simple grep and cut otherwise.

$ cat your_file | grep "^>" | cut -f1 -d " " | sed 's/>//'
NZ_QJRW01000001
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written by GenoMax GenoMax

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Because the return keyword is only allowed inside function definitions:

def biggerthanfive(x):
    if x > 5:
        return True
    else:
        return False

In your example, you are only using a loop that you can break, but not return from. You can also write it way more succinct.

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written by Matthias Zepper Matthias Zepper

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