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SyntaxError: Lexical error at line – Jython

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When running a jython script in wsadmin.bat/.sh we get this error: SyntaxError: Lexical error
A common reason is missing “quotes”. As you can see by this error column 35 has an error and a carriage return was found before the end quote. The fix is to add a set of quotes.
Problem code:

print "Entering exception catch

 

WASX7017E: Exception received while running file "f:\script\jython\getCell.py"; exception information: com.ibm.bsf.BSFException: exception from Jython:
Traceback (innermost last):
  (no code object) at line 0
  File "", line 27
           print "Entering exception catch
                                          ^
SyntaxError: Lexical error at line 27, column 35.  Encountered: "\r" (13), after : ""

Solution:

print "Entering exception catch


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