syntax error: line 1, column 0

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train_imgs, seen_train_labels = parse_annotation(train_annot_folder, train_image_folder, labels=LABELS)
### write parsed annotations to pickle for fast retrieval next time
#with open('train_imgs', 'wb') as fp:
#    pickle.dump(train_imgs, fp)

### read saved pickle of parsed annotations
#with open ('train_imgs', 'rb') as fp:
#    train_imgs = pickle.load(fp)
train_batch = BatchGenerator(train_imgs, generator_config, norm=normalize)

valid_imgs, seen_valid_labels = parse_annotation(valid_annot_folder, valid_image_folder, labels=LABELS)
### write parsed annotations to pickle for fast retrieval next time
#with open('valid_imgs', 'wb') as fp:
#    pickle.dump(valid_imgs, fp)

### read saved pickle of parsed annotations
#with open ('valid_imgs', 'rb') as fp:
#    valid_imgs = pickle.load(fp)
valid_batch = BatchGenerator(valid_imgs, generator_config, norm=normalize, jitter=False)

Whenever I run this, I get the error

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\a\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 3296, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)

  File "<ipython-input-152-54bc9b7f63fe>", line 1, in <module>
    train_imgs, seen_train_labels = parse_annotation(train_annot_folder, train_image_folder, labels=LABELS)

  File "<ipython-input-147-9ed890a4d229>", line 8, in parse_annotation
    tree = ET.parse(ann_dir + ann)

  File "C:\Users\a\Anaconda3\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1196, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)

  File "C:\Users\a\Anaconda3\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 597, in parse
    self._root = parser._parse_whole(source)

  File "<string>", line unknown
ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0