setup.py giving syntax error while installing module

I've been trying to learn Python via "Learn Python the Hard Way", and in ex46 he told us to put a script in bin and install it with setup.py.

My script name was script1.py Here is my setup.py file:

try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

config = [
          'description': 'My Project',
          'author': 'My Name',
          'url': 'URL to get it at.',
          'download_url': 'Where to download it.',
          'author_email': 'My email.',
          'version': '0.1',
          'install_requires': ['nose'],
          'packages': ['NAME'],
          'scripts': ['bin/script1.py'],
          'name': 'projectname'
        ]
setup(**config)

Output:

File "setup.py", line 7
'description': 'My Project',
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I am using ubuntu 16.04 and python 2.7.13

Solution

Your description is shown as a list (begins and ends with [ and ]) but should be a dict (begin and end with { and }).

A list is just that, a comma separated list of items, the start and end of which are indicated by brackets ([ and ]). A dict on the other hand is a comma separated list of key/value pairs which are indicated by braces({ and }). The error is telling you that the colon (which would separate a dictionary's key from its value) is out of place since it thinks it is a list. By changing the beginning and ending brackets to braces, it will properly identify it as a dictionary.