syntaxError: 'continue' not properly in loop
continue is only allowed within a for or while loop. You can easily restructure your function to loop until a valid request.
def writeHandlesToFile(): while True: with open("dataFile.txt","w") as f: try: lst = tweepy.Cursor(tweepy.api.followers,screen_name='someHandle',).items(100000) print "cursor executed" for item in lst: f.write(item.screen_name+"\n") break except tweepy.error.TweepError as e: print "In the except method" print e time.sleep(3600)
The problem might be in the way you are using continue
continue may only occur syntactically nested in a for or while loop, but not nested in a function or class definition or finally statement within that loop.6.1It continues with the next cycle of the nearest enclosing loop.